ALTHOUGH he considers himself of presidential timber, Sen. Richard Gordon said he is not sure whether he will seek re-election for the Senate or will run for president in 2010.
Gordon, who was ranked fifth in the 2004 senatorial elections, can seek re-election in 2010. But he has been aspiring to become president since 1992 yet.
“I think among those who have declared (to run for president), I can see that I am the most ready (to manage the country) but I am not a candidate yet,” Gordon said in a press conference.
Jejomar “Jojo” C. Binay (November 11, 1942) is the current mayor of the City of Makati in the Philippines. He is also the president of the United Opposition (UNO), National President of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Laban (PDP-Laban) and National President of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines.
Background
Jejomar Cabauatan Binay was born in Paco, Manila but grew up in Makati with his uncle, Ponciano, after Binay’s parents – Diego Medrano Binay of Bauan, Batangas and Lourdes Cabauatan of Cabagan, Isabela – passed away.
At a young age, Binay learned to rely on his resourcefulness and determination. He went around his neighborhood to gather slop for his uncle’s backyard piggery, looked after his uncle’s fighting cocks, and went to market daily.
NOLI DE CASTRO has, in the past few years, portrayed himself as every corrupt government officials’ nemesis, the defender of the poor and the oppressed and the hope of the exploited and the helpless. Every morning, De Castro is heard over radio DZMM fearlessly lambasting corrupt police officials, taking to task lazy and inefficient government functionaries and exposing exploitative and oppressive private individuals and Big Business. His exposes continue on ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation’s primetime television news, TV PATROL and the once-a-week news magazine program, MAGANDANG GABI, BAYAN. In the process, De Castro has managed to cultivate an image of “MR. CLEAN.” Indeed, he has become everybody’s KABAYAN.
Businesses reported owned by VP Noli de Castro
- ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. (conjugal) , Quezon City, Stockholder
- Bayan Co. Inc. (conjugal), Quezon City, Part-owners
- MGB Foods Co. Inc., Quezon City, Part-owners
Benjamin Nillo, Las Piñas City: Although he’s a good man, I won’t vote for Noli de Castro as the next president. He is not an intellectual and will not make an efficient leader.
Edward Perdido, Ilocos Norte: Yes, I’m very convinced that he’ll be a good president since he is doing his appointed job with results. I think it’s enough basis and training for him to be the president.
MANILA, Philippines – Makati City Mayor Jejomar “Jojo” Binay on Tuesday announced his intent to run for president in the 2010 national elections.
A GMA Flash Report said Binay announced his presidential bid during the celebrations of his 66th birthday at the Makati City Hall.
The report quoted Binay as saying that he will accept it if the United Opposition (UNO) will not field him as their standard bearer. Binay is UNO president.
Meanwhile, a report over dzBB radio said Binay had already informed former President Joseph Estrada his plans to run in 2010.
Aside from Binay, those who have announced they will run for president or are reported to be eyeing the presidency in 2010 include Vice President Manuel “Noli” de Castro, Senators Manuel “Manny” Villar, Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, Panfilo Lacson, Richard Gordon, Loren Legarda and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chair Bayani Fernando.
Public opinion polling body Social Weather Station on Friday revealed De Castro is the top pick to succeed President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2010. Following his trail are Villar, Legarda, Lacson, Escudero, former President Estrada, and Roxas. – GMANews.TV
Armed with a suspension order from the Ombudsman, officials of the Interior department on Friday moved to evict Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay from the City Hall, a little over a week before elections.
About 2,000 supporters of Binay, who is heavily tipped to retain his mayoral post in the May 14 polls, quickly gathered outside the new Makati City Hall shortly before 10 p.m. in an outpouring of support for the opposition leader.
It was not immediately clear why the order was being served late at night before the weekend, where the courts — where Binay could challenge the order — are closed.
THE spouse of Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay could heave a sigh of relief, at least for the next few days.
This developed when two divisions of the Sandiganbayan gave due course to the appeal of Elenita Binay, former mayor of Makati City, to suspend proceedings on her cases now pending before four divisions of the anti-graft court involving the alleged multimillion-peso purchase of overpriced furniture and office partitions from 1999 to 2001.
The first and fifth divisions of the Sandiganbayan have separately conducted hearings on Thursday and both gave the prosecution panel a period of five days beginning Thursday until Tuesday next week to comment on the motion filed by Elenita, a former Makati City mayor.
CELEBRATING his latest court victory, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay said on Tuesday that the Sandiganbayan’s dismissal of the graft case filed against him merely confirmed that the charges were baseless.
In a statement issued by his counsel, Binay said the anti-graft court’s decision was in favor of the truth: That the case, filed by the Ombudsman based on the complaint of his political rival, Roberto Brillante, should not have reached the Sandiganbayan in the first place.
MALACAÑANG said Tuesday it supported the suspension of Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay but was quick to deny the administration was cracking down on staunch critics of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the political opposition.
The Department of Interior and Local Government handed down a suspension order against Binay, Vice Mayor Ernesto Mercado and seven councilors in connection with charges filed by a political rival accusing them of maintaining so-called “ghost” employees.
