Roxas is LP presidential bet in 2016 – Abaya

Interior Secretary Mar Roxas INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines – Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II is still the Liberal Party’s  choice to be its standard-bearer in 2016, a ranking party official said on Tuesday.

“Sa LP e , alam  nyo naman kung sino ang kasagutan ko dyan e. Kung sino ang magdadalala ng bandera ng LP e Secretary Roxas  po yun at nagme-meeting ho kami para itulak at isulong  itong pananaw ng aming partido,”  Transportation Secretary   Joseph  Emilio Abaya told reporters after  attending   a hearing  in the Senate.

(In the LP,  you  know what my answer is.  As to who will be the standard-bearer of LP,  that will be Secretary Roxas and we have been meeting to  push this  sentiment of  the party)

Asked if Roxas was the only choice  and that no other party member was being  considered to run for president,  Abaya, secretary-general  and acting  president  of LP, said: “Yes ma’am.  Sya lang  po.”

Though the party has yet to  go through its selection process,  Abaya said its members have been acting in “consensus and in unison” when it comes to choosing the standard bearer.

“May proseso po kaming i-undertake that has not yet been done so I’m probably expressing this as my own personal opinion and conviction,”  he said.

(We have a process that we have to undertake, that has not yet been done so I’m probably expressing this as my own personal opinion and conviction.)

“I’m sure the other LP members will have their own  personal choices as well but so far we have been in consensus and in  unison in who our candidate should be,”  Abaya added.