SENATOR Antonio Trillanes IV downplayed the possible merging of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), led by Vice President Jejomar Binay and the Lakas-Christian and Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD), the political party of former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, for the national elections next year.
“This planned merger of UNA and Lakas shows the gathering of villains in Philippine politics. We should watch for it. We should not let the villains win,” he told reporters at Camp Aguinaldo after he met his upperclassmen from the Philippine Military Academy.
Trillanes, a former military officer, led a group of rebel soldiers who demanded Arroyo to step down during the 2003 Oakwood mutiny. He won as a senator in 2007, and won another term in 2013.
He said both Arroyo and Binay have been tagged in several corruption allegations.
“Birds of the same feather flock together,” Trillanes said.
The senator also said that there is no reason for the administration to be threatened by the alliance.
“I have faith in the Philippine electorate na makikita nila kung sino ang karapat-dapat na mamuno sa ating bansa so they will reject itong mga tiwali at mga kurakot. They have done that before and they will do it again in 2016,” he said.