GOOD GOVERNANCE: LIBERAL PARTY'S CAMPAIGN THEME

PRESS STATEMENT

Office of Senator Mar Roxas

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Ms. Jenny Bugarin

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February 10, 2010

LIBERAL PARTY KICKS OFF CAMPAIGN IN TARLAC CITY

RESTORATION OF GOOD GOVERNANCE THEME OF CAMPAIGN

The voter’s hunger for change in the corrupt political system is the Liberal Party’s formula in ensuring the victory of the tandem of Senators Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and Manuel “Mar” Roxas in the May 10 national elections, Chito Gascon, LP Director General, said today.

The LP slate led by Aquino and Roxas, along with the 12 Liberal “Peoples’ Reform” senatorial candidates, will kick off their 90-day campaign in Aquino’s home province of Tarlac, with a 9 a.m. mass in Concepcion, where the LP standard bearer’s late father, Sen. Ninoy Aquino, started his political career.

To highlight the campaign’s advocacy for democracy and good governance, the LP bets will lay a wreath in the elder Aquino’s statue, also in Concepcion, and later, unveil and bless the Cory Monument at the Tarlac City Plaza.

The memories of Ninoy Aquino, whose martyrdom in 1983 led to the EDSA Revolution, and the late President Cory Aquino serve as inspiration to the campaign of the LP tandem for the May 10 national elections, seen by the Aquino-Roxas duo as a battle to restore good governance in the country to erase widespread corruption that pervaded the 9-year rule of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Gascon said.

Aquino and Roxas will be accompanied in Tarlac by the LP “People’s Reform” senatorial slate – former Senate President Franklin Drilon, Muntinlupa Rep. Ruffy Biazon, Bukidnon Rep. Teofisto “TG” Guingona, former Bukidnon Rep. Nereus ‘Neric” Acosta, Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel, former National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) chief Ralph Recto, Sonia Roco of Aksyon Demokratiko, detained Brig. Gen. Danny Lim, lawyer Alex Lacson, Dr. Martin Bautista and women’s right advocate Yasmin Busran Lao.

After the Mass celebration at the Immaculate Concepcion Church in Concepcion, the LP candidates will barnstorm the province with a motorcade from Capas town to Tarlac City.

The kick-off rally in Tarlac City Plaza will start with a Mass set tentatively at 4:30 p.m. to be attended by the families of the candidates, followed by the unveiling and blessing of a monument in memory President Aquino.