MANILA, Philippines – Staunch critics of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday offered an unsolicited advice to her allies to stop pushing her to run for Congress, saying she will not even win in a barangay election.

"Why push her to run as Vice President or congressional representative in the second district of Pampanga, if she cannot even win the barangay chairmanship in La Vista, Quezon City or in any given barangay in Lubao, Pampanga," militant fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said in a statement.

Quezon Representative Danilo Suarez, one of the President’s allies, had broached the idea that Arroyo could run as vice president and running mate of administration candidate Gilbert Teodoro in the May 2010 election.

The congressman said this would be a good idea to ensure the continuity of economic reforms that Arroyo started since she assumed the presidency in 2001.

Talks are also circulating that Arroyo is planning to run for the second congressional district of Pampanga, a post currently held by her eldest son, Pampanga Representative Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo.

But Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap the President can be likened to a “dead man walking” as far as her political career is concerned.

Citing the October 2-8 survey conducted by Ibon, an independent research group, Hicap said only 17 percent of President Arroyo’s town mates in Pampanga are in favor of her plans to run for the second district of the province.

Results of the latest IBON nationwide survey revealed that while 77 percent of respondents were very much aware and convinced that Arroyo will seek a seat in the House of Representatives in 2010, 44.6 percent of those surveyed rebuked GMA’s plan to run for Congress next year.

The same Ibon nationwide survey revealed that 61% of the total 1,496 respondents said they are aware Arroyo will run for Congress. Of this number, 85.8% said they were not in favor for the president to stay in government as a Pampanga representative, according to Hicap.

“This represents the collective sentiment of the people, so even at the barangay level, Ms Arroyo will suffer a disaster at the electoral box-office," said Hicap.

Earlier, Pamalakaya urged the six mayors of Pampanga who endorsed the plan of the President to seek a seat in Congress in 2010 elections to rethink their position warning them of the phenomenal kiss of death attached to the Chief Executive.