With barely a day before the election, the camp of Vice President Jejomar Binay slammed President Benigno Aquino III’s call for unity and described it as hollow considering that Aquino has been hitting the rivals of Liberal Party bet Mar Roxas throughout the campaign.
The Binay camp said that Aquino should instead ensure that the election is free from cheating, violence and intimidation.
The public should respect the results of the elections as long as it was done in a clean and credible manner, said the Vice President’s communications director Joey Salgado.
“As long as the candidate wins in a clean election, we should respect the people’s judgment because that’s the essence of democracy,” Salgado said in a statement.
The Vice President continues the fight for a government that is not insensitive and inefficient, and truly serves the poor.
He said Aquino is now very anxious over Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s continues surge in survey ratings that his bet, Roxas wants to forge alliance with Senator Grace Poe.
Roxas, in a press conference, has asked for a dialogue with Poe to thwart a possible dictatorship under Duterte, who has been leading the voters’ opinion polls days before the May 9 election.
Salgado said that the real survey is on May 9, and expressed confidence that Binay, who captured the heart of most number of voters in the field, will win the election.