UNA gets top-rating bets

SEN. VICENTE Sotto III and former Sen. Panfilo Lacson—the top two choices in the recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) Senate survey—are among the six senatorial guest candidates of Vice President Jejomar Binay’s United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) party.

Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco on Sunday said the other guests on the senatorial ticket were former Senators Miguel Zubiri and Richard Gordon and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez.

UNA has one more slot to fill to complete its 12-member senatorial slate, according to Tiangco, UNA president.

Tiangco said the sixth guest candidate—and the last spot on the slate—would be filled this week after the selection committee decides from among the names submitted to the party.

Tiangco identified the six other UNA Senate bets as actress and Parañaque councilor Alma Moreno, Princess Jaycel Kiram of Sulu, boxing champion and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao, former PNP Special Action Force chief Getulio Napeñas, radio anchor Rey Langit and labor lawyer and former Filipino Freedom Workers president Allan Montano.

Lacson earlier told the Inquirer that Binay offered him a spot on his party’s senatorial slate when they bumped into each other at the Comelec last week as they filed their COCs.

“I did not decline. I merely said, I’m about to file as an independent,” Lacson said. Christine O. Avendaño