Aah…As you wake up in the morning you can start to smell that the season is fast approaching. You can see it in all corners of the street, the music on the radio, the busy people checking their list and including TV commercials. And here comes…the PRESIDENTIABLES! Hey, for a while there maybe you thought that I am writing about Christmas, right? Wrong. I actually thought of writing about the fast approaching 2010 Presidential Election.
This is a blog right? So, this is my way of saying my opinion about it. At my age, (okay, I’ll say it, nah… maybe next time) I have experienced, Presidents Ferdinand Marcos, Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Arroyo administrations. This 2010 election, I am not that excited about it because I am not satisfied with the candidates and their portfolios. I do not know much about politics, even though I took Political Science as my collegiate course, However I do care about how the country would do with the next president.
The very first one to announce his intention is Senator Manny Villar. He is not from the traditional clan of politicians. He started small and became a businessman through construction and real estate properties. I think that he is in the hot seat right now, because his C-5 project is actually constructed on his own property. Government officials and critics are saying that he profited from the project and it was constructed with originally in a different route, the senate voted yes for an investigation accusing Sen. Manny Villar with double insertions of his personal interest, with the accuser as Sen. Jamby Madrigal. Check this out his running mate for Vice Presidential seat is Senator Loren Legarda. This is the rigamarole in politics every that pass there is this big surprise as to who is the next big candidate. She is primarily paired with Sen. Chiz Escudero but for some reason he backed out from the race leaving her alone with no running mate. Probably that’s the reason why she opted to run with Sen. Manny Villar.
Presidential aspirant no. 2 is Bro. Eddie Villanueva. He is a spiritual leader for Jesus is Lord Movement. A spiritual group representing 6 million voters, wherein they have a unified decision to vote who ever the leader endorses. This is going to be his second attempt for the presidential seat. It might mean that not all of his members are enough to let him win. Have I mentioned that he is also the founder of the JIL movement started with only 15 members in 1978? He has no experience as a Public servant but he is very experienced as a Pentecostal leader for his group. I don’t have too much say about his political experience because for me he really has none.
Let’s go to candidate no. 3. Gilbert “GIBO” Teodoro Jr., the presidential bet for LAKAS-Kampi-CMD. He came from a prominent family in Tarlac province and had a good education and a background for politics. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said that his main agenda if he will be elected as president, he is to push for changes in the 1987 Constitution through a Constitutional Convention. He actually won against former presidential candidate Bayani Fernando for endorsement from the said party list. Now, take this he just announced that his running mate for VP is no less than Eduardo “EDU” Manzano. Well, what do you know. This is getting more and more surprising, right? Who would’ve thought that there’s something cooking? First, ABS-CBN ended one of the best game show in morning cast GAME KNB. Then, Edu broke up with his long time girlfriend anchor woman Pinky Webb (daughter of former Sen. Freddie Webb). A couple of days after we were all surprised when Edu announced he is GIBO TEODORO’s running mate for 2010 election. This is pretty exciting huh? I just can’t tell if he is even on the list for private surveys.
We have Chiz escudero next in line. He is a young aspirant for the presidential seat for the 2010 election. As of this writing he just turned 40yrs old. He is a very feisty and very vocal about his disappointments of the current administration. He was expected to represent the NPC party but to his seniors diapappointment he resigned from the party list and has decided to run independently.
Next in line is Sen. Noynoy Aquino. I believe he is in lucky waters these days because his mom’s passing gave him popularity and a chance to reach out to the middle to the lower class Flipinos. Being part of the Aquino-Cojuanco clan makes him a part of the Upper-elite class of Filipnos. I don’t know what his agenda is as of this writing, but from what I see from his TV ad is he is reviving his parents’ fight for a new government and a better democracy. Now, I tell yah this, for a moment i was stunned because Mar Roxas backed out from the presidential bet then he decided to be Noy’s running mate for the election. Noy’s always on the No. 1 spot for every conducted surveys for the 2010 election. This is Mar’s free ride to make sure for a vide presidential seat. Sen. Mar Roxas backed out from the race and gave way to his wife’s ex-boyfriend Noynoy Aquino. I’m sure he just realized that he can’t win against Noynoy’s gaining popularity.
The next presidential candidate that I know of, is of course, former president Joseph Estrada. I am quoting what he has said on tv that this is the last chapter of his life. He is giving it a shot one more time. I am just curious, do we really have to be a president just to serve our fellow countrymen. By the way his chosen running mate is Mayor Jejomar Binay of Makati city.
MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando, has backed out as well from the race. I think it is a good move because with what happened to Marikina, he might as well concentrate on keeping his turf on the right track after Ondoy flooded the whole city. Maybe, he is a good leader in a smaller scale community instead of the whole country.
These are just a few of the candidates on my personal list. I don’t know if there are any other aspirants. Of course nuisance candidates is still part of my list, and I’ll try to look up if they are already surfacing. I’ll let you know about any other updates about our upcoming presidential election and for this is gonna be exciting.