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Maria Elena “Ballsy” Aquino-Cruz and Aurora Corazon “Pinky” Aquino-Abellada confirmed that their family could not support Vice President Jejomar Binay who had called their brother President Noynoy Aquino’s government “palpak at manhid” (insensitive and bumbling).
“Cruz revealed that when the media reported that the sisters were widely perceived as favoring Binay as their brother’s successor, the sisters got an avalanche of text messages asking: ‘How can you support someone so corrupt?,'” reports Gil C. Cabacungan in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Cruz was quoted as saying, “He (Binay) has spoken, it’s all different now. Binay is still our friend, but he is going against our brother.”
For her part, Abellada stated, “I am only human. As Ballsy said, the difference is very clear. We just have to respect each other.”
Cruz added, though, that she hopes she could keep her ties with the Vice President’s children. “I can’t drive away or throw away a person we have been together with for a long time just because of what is happening now. I try to understand that is his role. His other children who have been nice, I really want them to be friends for life,” she said.
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