MANILA - Vice President Jejomar Binay on Friday said he
respects the response of President Benigno Aquino III on his earlier
statement that he is hoping to get the endorsement of the President for
the 2016 elections.
Binay, who has long expressed his intent to run for president in next
year's polls, said in a media forum Wednesday that he remains hopeful
he will be endorsed by Aquino.
Aquino, however, seemed to have rejected the possibility. He pointed out that Binay has always been with a different party since the 2010 polls.
"Siguro hindi klaro kasi. Hinahanap ba niya ang suporta ko kasi 2010 ibang grupo siya tumakbo. 2013 nanguna din siya ng ibang grupo. Tapos pagdating sa 2016, magkasama kami? Parang patungo pa lang siya sa amin, parang ang layo ng kurba para makarating," the President said Thursday.
"Even in this point, presumptuous ako sa hinahanap niyang pagsuporta. Yung mga ginawa niyang pagtakbo nung 2010 or 2013 eh iba naman talagang partido at grupo ang sinamahan niya. So parang sinasabi ngayon hinihintay niya yung endorsement ko eh hindi naman niya hiningi, di ba parang - may phrase yung panahon ng mga magulang ko, adelantado. I am presuming too much that he wants my support."
The President added that what he can promise any candidate is clean and credible elections next year.
According to Binay, who led the Independence Day celebration in Luneta, Manila along with Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada on Friday, he respects the statements given by Aquino.
"Nasabi na ni Pangulo, galangin natin. Yun ang pagkakasabi ni Pangulo," Binay told reporters. "Wala na, tapos na yun. May sinagot na si Pangulo."
Meanwhile, Binay only answered "okay lang" when asked to react on Senator Grace Poe's statement that if she becomes president, she will not grant Binay presidential pardon if the corruption allegations him lead to his conviction.
"Any president in office--after this president [Aquino]--who pardons them will lose his or her legitimacy," said Poe, referring to Binay, his son Makati Mayor Junjun Binay and other individuals facing plunder and graft charges over the alleged overpricing of the Makati City Hall Building 2.
"I don't think people will be confident in that administration. And even if let's say -- he (Binay) is one of them -- he wins and he actually assumes office, and he pardons the others, I think he will start with the wrong foot and I don't think that administration will last," she added.
Aquino, however, seemed to have rejected the possibility. He pointed out that Binay has always been with a different party since the 2010 polls.
"Siguro hindi klaro kasi. Hinahanap ba niya ang suporta ko kasi 2010 ibang grupo siya tumakbo. 2013 nanguna din siya ng ibang grupo. Tapos pagdating sa 2016, magkasama kami? Parang patungo pa lang siya sa amin, parang ang layo ng kurba para makarating," the President said Thursday.
"Even in this point, presumptuous ako sa hinahanap niyang pagsuporta. Yung mga ginawa niyang pagtakbo nung 2010 or 2013 eh iba naman talagang partido at grupo ang sinamahan niya. So parang sinasabi ngayon hinihintay niya yung endorsement ko eh hindi naman niya hiningi, di ba parang - may phrase yung panahon ng mga magulang ko, adelantado. I am presuming too much that he wants my support."
The President added that what he can promise any candidate is clean and credible elections next year.
According to Binay, who led the Independence Day celebration in Luneta, Manila along with Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada on Friday, he respects the statements given by Aquino.
"Nasabi na ni Pangulo, galangin natin. Yun ang pagkakasabi ni Pangulo," Binay told reporters. "Wala na, tapos na yun. May sinagot na si Pangulo."
Meanwhile, Binay only answered "okay lang" when asked to react on Senator Grace Poe's statement that if she becomes president, she will not grant Binay presidential pardon if the corruption allegations him lead to his conviction.
"Any president in office--after this president [Aquino]--who pardons them will lose his or her legitimacy," said Poe, referring to Binay, his son Makati Mayor Junjun Binay and other individuals facing plunder and graft charges over the alleged overpricing of the Makati City Hall Building 2.
"I don't think people will be confident in that administration. And even if let's say -- he (Binay) is one of them -- he wins and he actually assumes office, and he pardons the others, I think he will start with the wrong foot and I don't think that administration will last," she added.