Former Las Piñas Rep. Cynthia Villar has bared that the Nacionalista Party (NP) headed by her husband, Sen. Manuel Villar, had enlisted four guaranteed candidates for the senator with “graduating Congressman” Teodoro Casiño as possibly the fifth, once a coalition is forged between the NP and Bayan Muna.
The congresswoman revealed that the NP’s senatorial candidates, aside from herself, would include Alan Peter Cayetano, Robert Ace Barbers and Casiño. She however refused to reveal the fifth candidate.
At this point, no coalition with other political parties have yet been forged by the NP, said Mrs. Villar, a three termer congresswoman in the House.
Meanwhile, Zambales Rep. Ma. Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay yesterday said that if Sen. Franklin Drilon would not apologize for implying that she was less of a Magsaysay, then she would not force the issue.
According to the lady solon, what was important was that the people know the truth.
“I will not force him to say sorry if he stands by the fact that he is in the right. I was not asking for the apology for myself anyway but for the millions of married women affected by his badmouthing,” Magsaysay said.
“He may say that he means nothing by implying that I am less of a member of the Magsaysay family because I married into it and was not born with the surname, but his words have already betrayed his true opinion of married women,” she said.
A statement by Drilon last week bragging the Liberal Party (LP) has under its wing the true Magsaysay, referring to former senator Ramon Magsaysay Jr., as a senatorial candidate, triggered the verbal tussle between the senator and Mitos.
She said she was not surprised that that Drilon would take the 2013 elections personally because this was the same treatment she has received from this administration, which has refused to release her pork barrel and has chosen to let her programs in the district suffer just because she was very vocal about her disagreement with the government’s policies.
“Birds of the same feather stick together. If they want to take their politics to this extent, so be it. What matters is at least now the people know the truth. And they also know that I will not take these hits lying down,” Mitos said. “I will defend myself because I have not done anything wrong and no amount of black propaganda will change that.”