Ramon Magsaysay Jr. files candidacy for senator

Former senator Ramon Magsaysay Jr. Fat Reyes/INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — Former senator Ramon Magsaysay Jr. filed his certificate of candidacy for senator at the Commission on Elections main office in Intramuros, Manila Friday.

He arrived at around 8:30 am.

He is part of Liberal party-led senatorial line-up for the 2013 polls.

The candidates are Liberal Party members Paolo Benigno Aquino, the President’s cousin; former senator Jamby Madrigal,; re-electionist senators Loren Legarda, Francis Escudero, Aquilino Pimentel III, Antonio Trillanes IV; Aurora Representative Juan Edgardo Angara; former Las Piñas Representative Cynthia Villar; Akbayan party-list member Risa Hontiveros; and censors chief Grace Poe Llamanzares.

The other candidates of the LP-led senate slate come from the Nacionalista Party, the Nationalist People’s Coalition, Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan, Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino, and Akbayan.

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