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“In an interview with reporters who covered his trip to Singapore, President Noynoy Aquino said he is consulting other parties regarding the matter while the ruling Liberal Party (LP) is in the process of building a consensus on who should be its standard bearer in 2016,” reports Delon Porcalla in The Philippine Star.

Aquino is also LP’s chairman.

When it was pointed out that some LP members have said Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II is still the party’s “sentimental” choice, Aquino simply said, “In our party, consensus is important. One cannot just talk about something that’s not yet agreed upon. So I am not at liberty to talk on behalf of LP, and if I talk on an individual basis, the time is not yet right.”

However, Senate President Franklin Drilon, LP vice-chairman, said, “I am a partyman, and I would prefer a party-member. We do not lack talents in our party.”

Drilon likewise that if Roxas runs in 2016, he would back him. “If he expresses his interest, I will support him,” he quipped.

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