Sen. Maria Ana Consuelo ?Jamby? Madrigal Monday vowed to veto any budget insertions if she was elected president, saying they were a source of corruption and people involved in such insertions should be charged with plunder.

Apparently referring to charges against one of her rivals for the presidency, Sen. Manuel Villar, in connection with the C-5 road extension project, Madrigal said that in budget insertions, ?you get tens of billions of pesos that are wasted and that should be audited, and the people who insert for their own good should be charged with plunder.?

She noted that ?in our country, power is like honey.?

?So when you?re president, you see the bees run to the honey [but] very few run to vinegar. I will bet you my bottom dollars that they will run to me once I?m president,? Madrigal said.

Asked if she favored a divorce law, Madrigal said she would like to put this to a referendum and find out if the poor would favor it.

According to her, ?the rich get annulled because they have the money ? The poor have illegitimate children with no recourse but to stay illegitimate.?