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.