VICE President Jejomar Binay said Thursday the task of eliminating poverty could not be given to a tyrant or to an inexperienced or insensitive leader.
He vowed to protect the rights and uplift the lives of the people if elected.
He said he would not let the people continue to suffer because of the failure of the current administration to improve their living conditions.
His presidency will provide health care to all, improve government services, provide more jobs and fix the Metro Rail Transit and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
“If ever you give me the opportunity to become the next president, no one will die of sickness because they don’t have money to pay the doctor or buy medicine,” Binay said.
His administration will not tolerate incompetence and will work to address hunger, respect human rights and the dignity of women, promote respect for the law and the right to life.
Binay, who has built his platform of governance on his experience in uplifting the lives of his constituents in Makati City, vowed to focus on ridding the country of poverty.
He said a candidate with a track record in incompetence would only worsen the country’s sorry state.
Binay, who fought against the dictatorship as a human rights lawyer during Martial Law, was also against the use of violence to correct the current administration’s blunders.
Binay’s United Nationalist Alliance expressed confidence he will come out the winner in the May 9 elections.
“History will indeed repeat itself,” Binay’s spokesman Rico Quicho said.
Binay won the 2010 national elections after trailing in the pre-election surveys.