Trillanes vows to continue Magdalo’s fight if elected VP

Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday said he will continue the fight of his Magdalo group if ever elected vice president in the 2016 elections.

Trillanes, who was accompanied by Magdalo members, officially sealed his vice presidential run as he filed his certificate of candidacy at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) headquarters in Intramuros, Manila.

“Pagpapatuloy po namin ang sinimulan namin noong 2003. Kasama ko po silang nakulong. Hindi po namin ititigil ang pakikipaglaban,” Trillanes, ex-officio chairman of Magdalo, told the media in a short speech before leaving the Comelec office.

(We will continue what we began in 2003. They were imprisoned along with me. We will not cease the fight.)

Trillanes was referring to the Oakwood mutiny that he and his group staged on July 27, 2003 at the then Oakwood Premier Ayala Center in Makati as a show of opposition force against the alleged corruption of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The senator also reiterated Magdalo’s support for the candidacy of Sen. Grace Poe in the presidential race.

READ: Trillanes tells Roxas: Magdalo to back Grace Poe in 2016 polls | Trillanes declares VP bid, endorses Poe as president

Trillanes will face off fellow senators Francis Escudero, Gregorio Honasan, Nacionalista Party stalwarts Alan Peter Cayetano and Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., and Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo in the vice presidential derby. CDG

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is joined by his wife, Arlene, and members of the Magdalo group as he files his certificate of candidacy for vice president at the Commission on Elections headquarters in Manila on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. PHOTO BY EDWIN BACASMAS/PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER

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