Nancy Binay expects to get ‘more attention’ ahead of 2016 polls

Nancy Binay. INQUIRER file photo

MANILA, Philippines — With the 2016 presidential election now up in the air, Senator-elect Nancy Binay said she expects to get “more attention” as she formally assumes office in July.

Binay is the daughter of   Vice President Jejomar Binay, who has openly expressed intention to run for president in 2016.

“I expect more attention now because aside from the fact that I’m the daughter of the Vice President, the mode is now geared towards 2016. So I expected that the attention would be like this,” she told reporters in Filipino when she paid a courtesy call to Acting Senate President Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada at the latter’s office in the Senate Wednesday.

With the criticisms that she has now been getting, her father wondered if he made the right decision, allowing his daughter to join politics.

“You know, to be honest, now that my daughter is being criticized, I told myself: Did I make the right decision to allow her to run?” the Vice President said, also in Filipino, in a separate interview also Wednesday.

Unlike Nancy Binay, Senator-elect Juan  Edgardo “Sonny” Angara felt  only a “little pressure” despite expectations  that he would  level, if  not surpass,  the performance of  his father, outgoing Senator Edgardo Angara.

Before he was elected senator last May, the younger Angara completed his three terms or nine years in the Lower House as representative of Aurora province.