Sen. Nancy Binay is considering running for mayor of Makati City in the May 2025 midterm elections.
“I am more than 50 percent sure in running for mayor of Makati. I’m still waiting for a few signs,” Binay said in an interview with Facts First hosted by veteran journalist Christian Esguerra.
She said she would consider taking her chance to serve Makati where her sister Abby is the incumbent mayor.
Nancy won her first Senate seat in 2013 without prior government experience. She chaired the Cultural Communities and Tourism committees in the 17th Congress and was re-elected for a second term in the 2019 elections.
If she decides to run for mayor in Makati, she will be competing against the husband of her sister Abby, incumbent Makati City 2nd district Rep. Luis Campos, who also plans to run for the city’s local top post.
If elected, Nancy will be the fifth member of the Binay family to serve as mayor of Makati. Her father and former Vice President Jejomar Binay, Elenita Binay, and younger brother Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay, have all previously held the position.
Abby, who is in her final term, is reportedly considering running for a senatorial position. She recently joined the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) and is being considered as one of its senatorial candidates in the upcoming elections.
This would be the second time that members of the Binay family competed for the same position in Makati. Abby and Junjun both ran for mayor in 2019. In that election, Mayor Abby got her second term with a significant lead over Junjun and four other candidates.
Junjun was supposed to run for re-election in the city in 2016 but his dismissal order from the Office of the Ombudsman over allegations of irregularities in the city prompted the Binay family and the United Nationalist Alliance, the political party of the then vice president, to field Abby.
Makati City, with over 370,000 registered voters, has long been a stronghold of the Binay family since the Vice President was appointed the city’s officer-in-charge in 1986.
