Vice President Binay will have to do better than say that the charges of corruption against him are old stuff, have never been proven, and are only brought up before elections, and he has consistently won his mayoral elections despite those charges. We must remember that charges of corruption have been leveled against him since almost day one of his incumbency as Makati mayor. That they have not been proven doesn’t necessarily mean they are not true. It may also mean he is good at hiding his tracks. I am glad that the Senate is bringing all these charges in the open. For too long, these charges have been successfully kept from the public. The Vice President should answer them one by one. It is not a mayoral position he is contesting. It is the presidency. The people are entitled to have a president that has no corruption attached to his name. At the least, Vice President Binay should answer this question: How, on the basis of his salary as a mayor, which he had been for most of the years since 1986, could he finance a mayoral, congressional and vice presidential campaign all at the same time (2010); and a senatorial, congressional and mayoral campaign soon after (2013)? The Supreme Court applied a test to Ferdinand and Imelda: It added up their incomes in their various government positions, and compared them with the value of their acquisitions. It was on that basis that they declared the couple to have unexplained wealth. Will Vice President Binay pass the test? Read more: opinion.inquirer.net/77751/what-if-politically-motivated#ixzz3BDIe0JXC Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:25:45 +0000