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==Mendoza: Why Pacquiao left Noynoy to join Binay== | |||
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/sports/2012/04/21/mendoza-why-pacquiao-left-noynoy-join-binay-217360 | |||
*Saturday, April 21, 2012 | |||
:by Al S. Mendoza | |||
FROM Lakas to NP, LP and now UNA. Those are the four political parties thus far for Manny Pacquiao. | |||
Does that make Pacquiao a turncoat, a political butterfly? | |||
The last Lakas stalwart was Ate Glue, the former president now serving as a representative from Pampanga. | |||
During her nine-year reign at the Palace, Ate Glue’s regular visitor was Pacquiao. | |||
It became almost customary for Pacquiao to drop by Ate Glue’s old residence by the | |||
riverbanks every time he came home from a conquest overseas. | |||
When he first ran for congressman in GenSan in 2007, Pacquiao was under the Lakas banner. | |||
Unfortunately, he lost to Darlene Antonino-Custodio. | |||
Pacquiao next aimed his political guns in Sarangani, the land of birth of his wife, Jinkee. | |||
In 2010, he won the lone congressional seat in Sarangani, running under Manny Villar’s Nacionalista Party. | |||
But Villar lost to Noynoy Aquino, the standard bearer of the Liberal Party. | |||
Not long after, Pacquiao switched camps again, moving over to Noynoy’s LP. | |||
Observers said, Pacquiao “is so young, but so wise already to the ways of the political arena.” | |||
You want political survival, you seek to secure favors from the powerful, join the ruling party: LP. | |||
But, alas, the Noynoy-PacMan romance would prove to be short-lived. | |||
Just very recently, Vice President Jojo Binay said Pacquiao has joined the UNA (United Nationalist Alliance). | |||
UNA is an alliance forged between the PDP-Laban (Binay’s party when he defeated Mar Roxas for vice president in 2010) and Erap’s PMP (Partido ng Masang Pilipino). | |||
“PacMan is our gubernatorial bet in Sarangani in the 2013 election,” said Binay, the UNA chieftain who is highly-touted as running for president in 2016. | |||
Pacquiao’s fans have asked me: What might have prompted PacMan to bolt Noynoy’s LP? | |||
I have a guess: PacMan felt he didn’t get any help from Noynoy regarding the boxing icon’s recent row with the taxman. | |||
You might probably say, “What a flimsy reason.” | |||
Excuse me, but to a guy like Pacquiao, friendship is really “walang iwanan,” or BFF if you will, as in “Best Friends Forever.” | |||
The masa would almost always think that way. | |||
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*Source: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=798783&publicationSubCategoryId=63 | *Source: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=798783&publicationSubCategoryId=63 | ||
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He said the Philippines has ordered only two new aircraft while China has more than 2,000. – With Christina Mendez, Pia Lee-Brago, Sheila Crisostomo | He said the Philippines has ordered only two new aircraft while China has more than 2,000. – With Christina Mendez, Pia Lee-Brago, Sheila Crisostomo | ||
==Sarangani Launches Mahin Summer Festet== | ==Sarangani Launches Mahin Summer Festet== | ||