2010 Philippine General Elections

Presidential Aspirants:

Manny Villar
Noli de Castro
Mar Roxas
Loren Legarda
Bayani Fernando
Richard Gordon

Among the aspirants above, I personally like Richard Gordon. I'll just keep you posted for the latest buzz in our upcoming Presidential Elections.

Wishlist for the next Elections:

*Automated Elections
*Purged Voters'List
*Clean, Peaceful & Honest Elections
*Program-centric elections
*Monthly Debate of the Presidential Aspirants

And by the way, here's what I gathered from one of the forums:

Gordon forming own party

INSISTING that he remains an independent and not a member of any administration party, Senator Richard Gordon is building up a base for “Bagumbayan Movement” which will be the vehicle for his presidential plans.

Although elected to the Senate as an administration candidate in 2007, Gordon said his ties with President Arroyo have been severely strained by his role, as chairman of the Blue Ribbon committee, in investigating scandals and irregularities in the executive branch.

He said a very graphic sign of his estrangement from Malacañang was that he did not receive any invitation to last week’s caucus of administration’s political allies belonging to the Lakas Christian-Muslim Democrats and Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino in Clark, Pampanga.

Which was ironic because Gordon is listed as one of the six names from whom the administration will pick its standard-bearer for the 2010 presidential election. The other five are Vice President Noli de Castro, Senator Ramon Revilla Jr., Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando and Quezon City Mayor Feliciano Belmonte.

Gordon said although he welcomes any political party that will support his presidential aspiration, he may ultimately rely on his own organization, the Bagumbayan movement, which he intends to convert into a party.

“The point is am I looking for Lakas? Of course, politics is addition. But do I know what Lakas stands for? Do I know what the Nacionalista Party or the Liberal Party stands for? That has always been my problem... There are no political parties that stand for any political ideology,” he told Standard Today.

“That is why we are always playing musical chairs whenever there is a new president. Everybody joins his or her party. So the long and short of it is we have a Bagumbayan movement. We have filed a petition with the Commission on Elections for political party status and anyone who wants to coalesce with us, they are welcome to do so.” Fel V. Maragay
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?...ics3_feb6_2009