Aquino-Roxas here for 3-day Negros, Panay sorties
A multi-sectoral consultative dialogue is the main thrust of the two-island, three-day swing by Senators Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, October 8-10, 2009.
The Aquino-Roxas team started interaction with students and other sectoral groups at the University of St. La Salle (USLS) Coliseum in Bacolod City yesterday. A meeting with Liberal Party local leaders followed in the evening at Planta Hotel.
Today, Aquino and Roxas are scheduled to arrive in Iloilo City around 9 a.m. at the Muelle Loney wharf where they will be welcomed by supporters and local leaders.
From Muelle Loney wharf the group will have a motorcade going to the De Paul College gymnasium, at E. Lopez Street, Jaro where the Noynoy-Mar team dialogues with students from various city colleges, market vendors, transport groups, senior citizens civic leaders and barangay officials. The forum is organized by the Friends of Mar Roxas-Iloilo.
Meantime, the Noynoy Aquino for President Movement (NAPM) Iloilo headed by lawyer Dan Cartagena will have its launching and oathtaking program at the Rehearsal Room of West Visayas State University around 8:30 a.m.
Cartagena said that national convenors of NAPM will grace the launching while Aquino and Roxas are expected to drop by and speak before the group.
By noontime Noynoy and Mar meet the press in a conference hosted by Gov. Niel Tupas at the Iloilo provincial capitol immediately before the group meets with Liberal Party leaders for a luncheon conference, also at the capitol.
A similar citizens’ consultative forum is set in the afternoon of October 9 in Passi City, Iloilo. The Aquino-Roxas group will have “whistle stops” in the towns of Sta. Barbara, Janiuay, Lambunao and Calinog, on the way to Passi City.
Day 3, October 10 of the Aquino-Roxas “citizens’ consultative interaction” goes to Roxas City in Capiz, and in Kalibo, Aklan.
The Panay-Negros sorties of Aquino and Roxas come after a warm interaction the group had in Mindanao very recently. (with reports from Jerry Taclino)