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Roxas in no hurry to find partner

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A MORE confident Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II said Thursday he was not in a rush to find a running mate for the 2016 elections in which he will be running for president.

The Liberal Party’s standard bearer said he and his allies had not set any deadlines for announcing the party’s vice presidential candidate during the 6th General Assembly of the League of Provinces of the Philippines, where he was guest of honor.  

“There’s no deadline whatsoever,” Roxas said.

“One day, one week, one month before that or near that is not material. What we’re fighting for is the dreams of one-hundred-million Filipinos.”

On Wednesday, Roxas publicly courted Senator Grace Poe on national television to be his running mate in 2016, saying the administration party had been considering her as its top choice for vice president.

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“I mean, we’re not talking here about who will be the co-star, the producer and director. What we’re talking about is the welfare of our nation, of our countrymen,” Roxas said.

Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said Roxas and Poe were seen to continue the Aquino administration’s so-called straight path.

“Well, as the President said, both [Roxas and Poe] are important. However, only Secretary Roxas has expressed his intention for the presidency and in fairness, Senator Grace Poe hasn’t,” Abad said.

“I think Senator Grace Poe needs to make a decision right now.”

Roxas has also said he is prepared for a Plan B, C, D, E or F should Senator Poe decide to take a separate path.

Since the President’s endorsement at Club Filipino on Friday last week, Roxas has seemed more confident and has been smiling a lot and cracking jokes, although he says he “is still the same person.”

He promised more on the coming days.

“We’re ready. We will have a series of policy speeches,” Roxas said.

“The challenges in 2016 are very different from those in the past years.”

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