Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he is open to
a possible tandem with Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in the May 2016 elections,
although who would run for president or vice president still has to be settled.
“Whatever position Mayor Duterte would want,
I would support him. We still have seven more weeks to go and it s a long time.
Many things could still happen,” said Marcos, who arrived in Davao City
Thursday for a series of engagements.
Marcos said he was still weighing his options
for the 2016 polls, but said he is definitely supporting the mayor.
Reports say an alliance between the
Nacionalista Party (NP) and Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Laban is in the offing
and will be endorsing Duterte should he opt to run for president in May 2016.
NP stalwart Sen. AlanPeter Cayetano earlier
virtually endorsed Duterte for president, fuelling speculations that an
alliance between Duterte s PDP-Laban and Cayetano s NP is in the making.
Cayetano was personally invited by Duterte to
attend the opening of the 30th Kadayawan Festival in Davao last Monday.
It was during the program that Cayetano
pointed to Duterte as having the edge over other presidential aspirants
because there is a genuine clamor for the Davao City mayor to seek the
presidency in next year s elections.
“Duterte's case is unique because there s a
genuine clamor from the people asking him to run,” Cayetano later said in a
press conference, describing the case as somewhat different to that of Sen.
Grace Poe and Interior Secretary
Mar Roxas, who rely on surveys and their
friends urging them to run.
He added that he remains clueless as to who
Duterte will pick as his running mate if he decides to join the presidential
race next year.
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