Aquino, LP into congressional horse trading 05/15/2010

Aquino, LP into congressional horse trading

05/15/2010 With very few Liberal Party members getting into the 15th Congress, the claimed “high standards” of LP presidential candidate Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino in first screening political butterflies joining his camp before acceptance into his camp, have been vastly lowered. Today, with no hope of gaining a majority in Congress, Aquino, the leading presidential candidate in unofficial tallies, is now wooing Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar, his campaign rival, whom he had called corrupt, and demanded an explanation into Villar’s abuse of power while benefitting his businesses and himself. Aquino, who was in Tarlac yesterday, made overtures to his defeated rivals in the presidential election to join the LP in forming a majority bloc as part of his efforts to win control of Congress. Aquino’s LP will not have majority of seats in the Senate or the House of Representatives even if he enjoys a commanding win in Monday’s presidential election. Saying that cooperation between the LP and the Nacionalista Party, which Villar heads, Aquino claimed: “There shouldn’t be a problem if it is for the good of the country.” It will be recalled that during the campaign, Aquino claimed that while he welcomes administration party defectors, not all will be accepted, as he claimed that he does not want the corruption-tainted adminis-tration party members to be in his team..... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100515hed6.html

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