GOOD GOVERNANCE: LIBERAL PARTY'S CAMPAIGN THEME

PRESS STATEMENT

Office of Senator Mar Roxas

Suite 512 GSIS Bldg., Financial Center, Pasay City

Please refer to:

Ms. Jenny Bugarin

Tel. 832-82-80 /+63920-950-6140

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.

AQUINO-ROXAS TANDEM STILL NO.1 IN SURVEYS

PRESS STATEMENT

Office of Senator Mar Roxas

Suite 512 GSIS Bldg., Financial Center, Pasay City

Please refer to:

Ms. Jenny Bugarin

Tel. 832-82-80 /+63920-950-6140

February 3, 2010

AQUINO, ROXAS STILL THE PEOPLES’ CHOICE

PULSE ASIA, MST SURVEYS: NOY-MAR NO. 1!

Liberal Party standard bearers Senators Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino and Manuel “Mar” Roxas continue to be the peoples’ choice to become the next president and vice president of the country, latest poll surveys released today indicated.

Pre-election surveys conducted by the Pulse Asia and the Manila Standard Today for the month of January showed Aquino and Roxas have maintained their leads over their rivals for the presidential and vice presidential May 10 electoral races.

In the Pulse Asia survey of 1,800 respondents during the period January 22 to 26, Aquino was chosen by 37% of the voters, while 35% chose Nacionalista presidential bet Sen. Manuel Villar.

Former President Joseph Estrada came in third with 12%, followed by former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro with 5%, religious leader Bro. Eddie Villanueva with 2% and Sen. Richard Gordon, 1%.

In the Pulse Asia vice presidential survey, frontrunner Mar Roxas crushed closest rival Sen. Loren Legarda with a 47% rating, or a staggering lead of 19% over Legarda’s 28%.

Also, Roxas beat Legarda in the MST polls conducted by pollster Pedro Laylo Jr. during the period January 20 to 27. Roxas was chosen by 43% of the 2,500 respondents while Legarda got a picking of only 29%, or a big difference of 14%.

In the said survey, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay ranked third with a rating of 14%, followed by former MMDA chairman Bayani Fernando with 3% and actor Edu Manzano with 3%.

The pre-election surveys of the Pulse Asia and MST confirmed a similar survey conducted by the polling firm Social Weather Stations (SWS), which showed Roxas’ lead over Legarda ballooning to 21% if elections for the vice presidential race was held today.

In the SWS survey of 2,100 respondents conducted for the BusinessWorld during the period January 20 to 24, Roxas was picked by 49% of the voters while Legarda got a nominal 28%.

In third place was Binay with 16%, followed by Fernando and Manzano, who each got 2%.

Roxas has consistently been the peoples’ choice for the vice presidential race in pre-election surveys conducted by the country’s top polling companies. He has maintained a two-digit lead over his rival vice presidential contenders in all recent surveys, a strong indication of how voters would pick the country’s second highest elective official in this year’s national elections.

The Liberal Party, on the other hand, is confident Aquino will maintain his lead over Villar, saying the numbers would change significantly once the public learns the truth behind the P6.2-billion C5 extension road scandal.

LP campaign manager Florencio Abad said Villar’s rating shoot up purely due to his huge “war chest” which has enabled him to flood the broadcast media with his campaign ads, a far cry to the little air time that Aquino has been able to get due to limited financial resources.

Official figures show Villar outspent the LP bet 7 to 1 in TV advertisements from January 22 to 24, the period when all of the pre-election surveys were conducted.

This is a gimmick that private companies usually engage in to improve the ratings of their products in market research services, Abad said.

He added the LP will intensify Aquino’s television ads during the campaign period to “stabilize his lead.”

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THE MEMBERS OF THE VIGAN CITY COUNCIL HEADED BY VICE MAYOR FRANZ RANCHES RECEIVE A PLAQUE OF RECOGNITION AND A CASH PRIZE OF TEN THOUSAND PESOS FROM GOVERNOR DV SAVELLANO FOR BEING THE OUTSTANDING SANGGUNIAN(LOCAL LEGISLATIVE BODY) OF ILOCOS SUR