Why Poe can’t run with Binay

SENATOR Grace Poe said running with Vice President Jejomar Binay has never been an open door.

“Alam mo sa umpisa pa lang, hindi ko alam na bukas ang pinto na yun eh,” Poe told reporters on Monday, responding to a reporter’s question if she would still be open for a possible tandem with Binay after she signed a draft report that recommended the filing of plunder charges against the Vice President.

Senator Grace Poe (left) and Vice President Jejomar Binay. INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS

Poe has yet to decide whether to run for a higher post while Binay has publicly declared his presidential bid in 2013.

“Alam mo, magmula noong hiniwalay nila kami noong 2013, hindi ko inaasahan yun at talaga namang sa tingin ko mas hindi na kami masydong magkatugma ngayon sa aming mga pananaw,” she said asked when if she had never considered running with Binay.

Instead of joining Binay’s senatorial ticket in 2013, Poe ran and won her first senatorial bid under the Liberal Party-led coalition.

Since then, Poe said she and Binay had been civil with each other.

“Hindi na, puro hi and hello na lang,” she said when asked if they had not talked to each other since they parted ways.

“Civil. Nagulat nga ako pumunta sya dun sa death anniversary nung dad ko e,” Poe said referring to her late father Fernando Poe Jr. (FPJ).

Binay served as FPJ’s campaign manager when the latter ran but lost to then President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the 2010 presidential race. AC

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