Palace taunts Binay camp for pointing fingers: Are you that insecure?

Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/ JOAN BONDOC

A Palace official on Wednesday taunted the camp of Vice President Jejomar Binay for claiming that administration bet Mar Roxas was behind the paid advertisements reviving the corruption allegations against the opposition leader.

“Sobra ba ang insecure ng kampo ni Binay na lahat ay ituturo sa kampo ni Mar Roxas?” presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said in a statement.

(Is Binay’s camp that insecure in finger-pointing everything at Mar Roxas’ camp?)

Lacierda was reacting to the remark of Binay’s spokesperson Rico Quicho that the ruling Liberal Party (LP) was trying to revive the corruption allegations against the Vice President through a “deceptive advertisement.”

“The elitist campaign to discredit the Vice President is nothing but lies and innuendos… This is a manifestation of the vain attempt to compensate the gross inefficiency and lack of empathy of the LP’s presidential candidate through inappropriate mudslinging against another candidate,” Quicho said.

The vice president’s daughter Sen. Nancy Binay also insinuated that LP or Roxas was behind the negative political advertisements, saying that the administration’s camp has the resources to resort to such mudslinging.

READ: Nancy hints Roxas behind anti-Binay pol ads

“Eh kasi ’di ba among all the other candidates, sino lang ba yung puro negative yung nagkakalat whether sa amin, whether kay Senator Grace (Poe) o kaya kay (Davao City) Mayor (Rodrigo) Duterte? Parang kaming tatlo, may common denominator kami e,” the senator said.

(Among all the other candidates, who was the only one spreading negative things whether against us, Senator Grace or Mayor Duterte? It seems like the three of us have a common denominator.)

The LP through its political affairs chairperson Caloocan Rep. Edgar Erice denied the allegations, saying that they would rather spend campaign funds to promote Roxas and his running-mate Leni Robredo.

READ: LP denies hand in anti-Binay pol ads

Likewise, Roxas denied having a hand in the negative advertisements, noting that Binay should just answer the issues raised against him.

READ: Roxas denies hand hand in anti-Binay ads

Lacierda said Binay, the voters’ top choice for president based on recent preference polls, must have been affected by Roxas’ latest political advertisement.

“Tinamaan ba siya ng ad ni Mar kaya siya ang sinisisi?” Lacierda said.

(Was he (Binay) guilty of Mar’s ad that’s why the latter was blamed?)

The Palace spokesperson was referring to Roxas’ advertisement where he said that he would do his job without drama and, above all, that he would not steal from public coffers.

Last Tuesday, Lacierda also advised Binay’s camp to “improve its script” following the Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee report which recommended the filing of plunder charges against the vice president and other personalities tagged in the construction of the allegedly overpriced Makati City Hall Building II. RAM

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