‘Yes to Mar’ campaign launched in Roxas City

The move paved the way for his rematch with Vice-President Jejomar Binay, the opposition’s presidential candidate next year, to whom he lost by more than a million votes in the 2010 vice-presidential race.

Aquino, who was upbeat throughout his speech, was reported to have expressed confidence in Roxas continuing his reform agenda, but acknowledged the work to be done if he is to win the election.

He said, “I want a capable successor who has no other bosses, but the people, no political debts to pay, no other interest than the country, who will continue the administration’s straight path”. Contenders must register their candidacy ahead of a mid-October deadline.

“I thank President Aquino for considering me among those who can continue his vision for Daang Matuwid (Straight Path).

In endorsing Roxas, the chief executive said that the ideal situation was for those who still need experience to have the opportunity to have their skills and talents fully developed first.

The 58-year-old former congressman and senator stated he was honored to be endorsed by Aquino as the usual bearer of the dominant Liberal Get together.

Aquino and Roxas, wearing the yellow favoured by the ruling Liberal Party, raised their hands amid a shower of confetti and chants of “Roxas Na” (Time for Roxas).

However, analysts say Aquino’s pick was laden with risk.

Despite the poor ratings, many in business circles favour Roxas.

Heydarian also warned that Roxas and Poe could split Aquino’s support base, giving Binay an additional edge.

Binay has already stated he’ll run for president subsequent yr, and up to date surveys put him forward of Roxas regardless of the corruption allegations.

“If this were boxing, we fought as lightweights, now we’re welterweights”, Binay told reporters.

Poe herself said while she has yet to make up her mind on whether she would run for a higher office, everyone must pursue the President’s Daan Matuwid program.

“I do not wish to open the possibility for an individual to stay in power their whole life”, Aquino said, adding that he has rejected calls to rewrite the constitution.

Aquino made the announcement in the identical assembly corridor the place Roxas declared six years in the past that he was shelving his personal presidential ambitions to offer solution to the son of the late democracy icon Corazon Aquino.

Aquino’s father, senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, was assassinated in 1983, a tragedy that triggered a peaceful uprising which ousted strongman Ferdinand Marcos and later catapulted Cory Aquino to the presidency in 1986.