Grace Poe: I’m praying and preparing for 2016
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While still undecided about the 2016 elections, Senator Grace Poe said she has already started preparing her platforms of government in case she decides to run for a higher post next year.
Poe said she has no definite date yet when to make the decision but said it would probably happen next month or before the deadline for the filing of candidacy in October, 2015.
So when Local Government Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II personally asks her to be his running mate, the senator said her answer would still be the same.
“My answer is still the same, that I’m still thinking what position or if I would run in 2016 because this is not easy,” Poe told reporters in Filipino on Wednesday.
“But I am also telling you that just in case, we’re already preparing the platform of government, the promises to the people and until it’s completed, I can’t say yet because you have to study very carefully how you can fulfill all those promises,” she added.
Asked if she was preparing for her possible presidential run, she said, “I was telling you, I’m praying and preparing just in case.”
“My mom told me, all of these preparations won’t be put to waste even if I decide to stay in the Senate because it is still public service,” she said.
Although Poe was the voters’ top choice for president based on the latest survey of Pulse Asia, she is still being wooed by the administration to be the running mate of Roxas, who had been anointed by President Benigno Aquino III to be his successor.
On national television Wednesday morning, Roxas himself invited Poe to be his running mate.
READ: Mar Roxas ask Grace Poe to be his VP on national TV
Reacting to the invitation, Poe said she was always willing to meet with Roxas, saying it would be better to discuss the matter in person.
“Of course, in person, you can be frank. And you wouldn’t have to think about the impression of other people,” said Poe.
