LP solon: Party in talks with NP for 2016 slate By Macon Ramos-Araneta, Christine F. Herrera | Nov. 18, 2014 at 12:01am THE ruling Liberal Party is teaming up with the Nacionalista Party with the LP fielding the standard bearer and the NP fielding the running mate, Iloilo Rep. Jerry Treñas, the LP’s vice president for the Visayas, said Monday. The team-up prompted the opposition United Nationalist Alliance to assert that the Senate hearings against Vice President Jejomar Binay were part of the Oplan Stop Nognog in 2016. “The LP-NP team-up only confirms and bolsters our claims that the Oplan Nognog plot was hatched by the LP-NP conspiracy to oust VP Binay and prevent him from becoming the next President,” UNA interim president and Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco said. He was reacting to Treñas’ statement that an LP-NP team-up wold be unbeatable in the 2016 presidential elections. Tiangco made his statement even as Senator Grace Poe on Monday brushed aside reports she would run for President in the 2016 elections with Senator Francis Escudero as her running mate. “There is no such tandem,” Poe, the top senator in the 2013 elections, said when asked to comment on her possible running with Escudero in the next presidential elections. “I’m not planning. As what Chiz and I have been talking about, it should be the intestines instead of politics,” Poe told reporters. Treñas said it would be best for the LP and the NP to team up as both had the right candidates and political machinery to win in 2016. “I think that an LP-NP team-up will be unbeatable in all levels in 2016, Treñas said. “This was already proven in 2013 when the two parties worked together in the midterm polls. This will work again in 2016.” On Sunday, a Palace official said a faction within the camp of President Benigno Aquino III—including his sisters—is rooting for Poe and Escudero to run for President and vice president in 2016, repudiating Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II. Rallying around the battle cry “anybody but Mar,” the group is the same “Noy-Bi” faction that campaigned for Vice President Jejomar Binay instead of Roxas in the 2010 elections. Poe said Tuesday they had discussed how the government budget could be felt by the public by dealing with poverty and coming up with programs to help school children. Pressed if there were some camps convincing her to run for President, Poe said it was difficult to listen to what they had been saying. “There are some [trying convincing me] but they do not come from the big parties and they have been saying that to the media,” Poe said. “However, my answer is the same:I have no plan. At this point in time there are no formal talks.” Poe said the people who had been approaching her were supporters of her late father, Fernando Poe Jr., and that “they are biased and should not be counted.”
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