04/07/2010
It would be a close fight among The Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer former President Joseph Estrada, Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential candidate former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro and Liberal Party (LP) bet Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino in the province of Tarlac, the home turf of both Estrada rivals, a local leader said yesterday.
Mayor Benito Aquino said that while Aquino and Teodoro who both hail from Tarlac are expected to get huge votes in the province, Estrada is expected to figure in the race at a close third.
“Estrada will get many votes,” Aquino said of the possible votes for Estrada here. “Erap will likely be third, Noynoy will be second and Villar a far fourth, with Teodoro expecting to win the votes here,” Aquino said on the sidelines of a short rally of Estrada’s ticket at a town plaza in Moncada, Tarlac where over a thousand attended yesterday. Aquino is not related to SenatorAquino.
Aquino said that the presidential fight in Tarlac would revolve around Aquino, Teodoro and Estrada.
He said that all candidates are “welcome “ in his town and that the people would be free to chose whom they want to vote.
When asked how close would be the fight among the three in the province, Aquino said: “Too close, although Gibo (Teodoro) will have a slight lead because this is his district.”
Aquino said Teodoro delivered many projects for the district when he was in Congress.
PMP campaign manager Ambassador Ernesto Maceda said the main link of the PMP with Tarlac is the organization called “Agilang Pilipino” but for President Estrada the main source of votes would be the poor people of Tarlac.
“Noynoy and Gibo are not expected to corner the votes in Tarlac,” Maceda said.
“To say the least maybe they’ll get 35 percent each and we get 25 to 30 percent...that’s good enough, we’ll fight in every province for every vote,” Maceda said before the start of the noontime rally at a covered court here.
PMP re-electionist Sen. Jinggoy Estrada said that the PMP talked to the local leaders to allow the people to chose who among the presidential candidates they would want to vote even as he expressed confidence that the votes for his father would not be “crumbs” from the two Tarlac residents.
“We asked local mayors to let the people make their choice on who to vote and most of them have already acceded to our request,” Jinggoy said.
He said that the PMP is going to put up a good fight here.
“We’ll put up a good fight,” he said.
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