Aquino-Roxas team holds Iloilo sorties
Liberal Party (LP) national candidates led by the front-runner tandem of Senators Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and Mar Roxas is the first to hit the city and province of Iloilo as the campaign period for national positions started.
Leading presidential and vice presidential candidates Aquino and Roxas are here today, February 12, to visit several Iloilo town markets in the morning and celebrate with the Ilonggo community for the Filipino-Chinese New Year opening parade in the afternoon.
A press conference at the Iloilo Golf and Country Club in Sta. Barbara kicks off the Aquino-Roxas sortie in Iloilo at 6:30 a.m.
The LP team which includes its senatorial slate headed by former Senate President Franklin Drilon proceeds to Sta. Barbara public market at 7:30 a.m., Pototan public market at 8:30 a.m., Barotac Nuevo public market at 10:00 a.m., Dumangas plaza gym at 11:00 a.m., Leganes covered gym at 2:00 p.m., and the Chinese New Year celebration opening program at 5:00 p.m. in Iloilo City.
The Aquino-Roxas team caps its Iloilo visit with an early evening caucus at the San Juan, Molo gym at 7:00 p.m.
Meanwhile, the voter’s hunger for change in the corrupt political system is the Liberal Party’s formula in ensuring the victory of the Aquino-Roxas tandem in the May 10 national elections, Chito Gascon, LP Director General, said yesterday.
The LP slate led by Aquino and Roxas, along with the 12 Liberal “Peoples’ Reform” senatorial candidates, kicked off February 9 its 90-day campaign in Aquino’s home province of Tarlac, where the LP standard bearer’s late father, Sen. Ninoy Aquino, started his political career.
The memories of Ninoy Aquino, whose martyrdom in 1983 led to the EDSA Revolution, and the late President Cory Aquino serve as inspiration to the campaign of the LP tandem for the May 10 national elections, seen by the Aquino-Roxas duo as a battle to restore good governance in the country to erase widespread corruption that pervaded the 9-year rule of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Gascon said.
