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==VP Binay says Marcoses open to FM’s burial in Ilocos Norte== | |||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=47917 | |||
*By: Cristina Arzadon | |||
*''August 09, 2011-www.pia.gov.ph'' | |||
LAOAG CITY- Vice President Jejomar Binay said the details on the final resting place of the late President Ferdinand Marcos will be announced in the coming days once burial preparations have been finalized. | |||
Binay had already recommended Ilocos Norte as Marcos’ final resting place citing a survey he conducted earlier this year showing that Filipinos favor military honors for Marcos in his home province. | |||
President Benigno Aquino III tasked Binay to study the matter and come up with his recommendations so that the issue of giving Marcos a hero’s burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani will be given closure. | |||
Binay said the Marcos family has already agreed to the government proposal to have Marcos buried in his home province. | |||
He said the discussions on the burial place have been trimmed down to two points. | |||
“The main issue was (whether or not to have the burial at the Libingan). That became moot and academic because the burial place originated from (the late president) who made a wish to have his body buried at the Libingan,” he said. | |||
“If (the Libingan burial) is not possible then we have to consider the family’s wish. But the Marcos family has already agreed to have the burial in Ilocos Norte,” he added. | |||
Binay was flanked by Ilocos Norte Representative Imelda Marcos when the former issued the statement during a press forum upon his arrival at the Fort Ilocandia Resort Hotel. | |||
Marcos was one of the provincial officials who welcomed the vice president upon his arrival at the Laoag International Airport. | |||
Binay did not say whether he has formally sat down with the Marcoses to discuss on the burial preparations. | |||
“We will issue an official pronouncement on the matter in the coming days once we have ironed out the remaining details of the burial plans,” he added. | |||
Marcos, who was silent during the forum, later told reporters in a chance interview that the family has yet to discuss the final burial plans. | |||
“I leave the decision to God as to where Marcos should be buried,” she said. | |||
Since 1993 when the Marcoses returned from Hawaii where they lived in exile, Marcos’ remains have been temporarily kept inside a glass coffin in an air-conditioned family mausoleum in Batac City. | |||
After meeting local chief executives in the Ilocos Region for the forum on the housing program, Binay proceeded to the provincial capitol as principal guest of the birthday celebrations of the late Ilocos Norte Governor Roque Ablan, Jr. | |||
==Vice President Binay to lead housing caravan in the Ilocos Region== | ==Vice President Binay to lead housing caravan in the Ilocos Region== | ||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=47692 | *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=47692 | ||