Breaking ice: Trillanes reaches out to Nancy Binay

Sen. Nancy Binay and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV. INQUIRER.net FILE PHOTOS

There, indeed, are no permanent enemies in politics.

After more than three years of avoiding each other, Sen. Nancy Binay and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV broke the ice between them during an hourlong chat shortly before the Holy Week.

“I’ve moved on,” Binay said.

Things had been tense between Binay and Trillanes because the latter was one of three senators who had led the inquiry into alleged corruption in Makati City Hall, where Binay’s father, former Vice President Jejomar Binay, served as mayor.

The hearings began in 2014.

It was Trillanes who reached out to her and invited her to talk at the Senators’ Lounge on their last session day in March, Binay said.

Mutiny vs Arroyo

She said Trillanes explained to her where he was coming from with regard to the inquiry he had initiated. He brought up the elder Binay’s failure to support his mutiny against then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

“He explained that he understands, that he does not want to force things with me because he may have caused pain,” she said.

Trillanes also told her he understood that it was her family he had attacked and she would be less than warm toward him.

Their meeting, which she had made known to her father, would not mean that the former vice president’s libel case against Trillanes would be dropped, she said.

Trillanes confirmed his chat with Binay and said they had a “very pleasant conversation.”

“I never had anything against her personally but I just respected her space all this time because I had a very bitter political feud with her father, VP Binay, a few years ago,” he said in a text message. — LEILA B. SALAVERRIA