Vilma and Ralph to join Noy-Mar team party
Vilma and Ralph to join Noy-Mar team party
The Noynoy and Mar show on Monday got an added dose of celebrity glitz with ex-Sen. Ralph Recto and his wife Vilma Santos joining the Liberal Party (LP).
Making the jump from the administration coalition, under whose banner the couple ran in the 2007 elections, isn’t because the popular actress and Batangas governor will star in an upcoming blockbuster celebrating the life of the late President Corazon Aquino.
“For next year’s presidential election, we want a political party that can promise an administration that is competent and truthful—one that can offer solutions to our nation’s problems,”
Santos told the Inquirer Monday.
“I’m not just jumping on the bandwagon,”
she said, dismissing suggestions that the decision was prompted by her friendship with Kris Aquino or Sharon Cuneta, wife of Sen. Francis Pangilinan, an LP stalwart.
“I made this choice not as an actress, but as a public servant. This is real life. I have an obligation to the people of Batangas.”
The multi-awarded actress said she has been inspired by the Liberal Party’s standard-bearer, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, and his running mate, Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II.
Recto, 45, who resigned on Aug. 16 as director general of the National Economic and Development Authority, is joining the LP’s senatorial slate in the May elections. This was announced during Monday’s meeting of the party’s national directorate.
The former senator said he informed Aquino and Roxas about the couple’s decision to join the LP over dinner in the Roxas residence in Quezon City on Saturday.
Consensus formula
“I think you have a good team in the LP under the leadership of Senator Noynoy and Senator Mar,”
Recto told the Inquirer. He said he found he had “many commonalities” with the team and its “consensus formula” in addressing the nation’s problems.
Aquino on Monday told reporters that he discussed wide-ranging issues during the weekend dinner with Recto.
“I believe we share common ideas on many matters.”
Santos said that before making the big leap, she consulted her constituents and informed the leadership of the ruling coalition Lakas-Kampi-CMD.
“It was a long and difficult process,” she related. “In every move I make, I try my best to get the sentiments of my provincemates.”
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