Imee: I’m not running for Manila mayor
SEN. Imee Marcos yesterday that will seek re-election in the midterm elections next year as she brushed aside rumors that she will run for mayor in the city of Manila or some other place.
“I am up for reelection in May next year, and despite many rumors that I am running for Manila City and other places, magpapare-elect lang ako (I will seek re-election),” Marcos said in a chance interview at the Senate.
The senator, elder sister of President Marcos Jr., she said she is not sure if she will join the administration’s senatorial in next year’s polls, or if she be included in it.
Marcos joined the administration lineup when she ran for senator in 2019 during the time of former President Duterte.
Lately, she is seen as an ally of Vice President Sara Duterte who quit the Marcos Cabinet last week and is having differences with her brother’s allies, mainly Speaker Martin Romualdez, their first cousin. The Vice President’s father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, has called Marcos Jr a drug user and addict.
The senator said the number of those eyeing a Senate seat can reach as high as 50, based on the senatorial slates of different political parties.
“May Lakas, may PFP (Partido Federal ng Pilipinas), marami eh, Napakarami, kaya nalilito ako. Pero tignan natin. Mahaba-haba pa naman ang panahon (There are candidates from Lakas [Christian Muslim Democrats], those from Partido Federal ng Pilipinas [the President’s political party]. There’s a lot that’s why I am confused. Anyway, we will see since the election is still far),” she added.
She also said that knowing the setting in Philippine politics, the final list of candidates usually comes up at “the last two minutes” which she likened to the last minutes in a basketball game.
NO COMPLICATIONS
Marcos said she does not see any “complications” in her campaign next year even if she is a known ally of the Vice President.
“For me, it will not be complicated. I was elected as a lawmaker, a senator. So, my job also calls for telling the truth. There will be those who will not be happy, there will be those who will be angry or will get hurt, but that is part of my job,” she said in Filipino.
Marcos earlier lamented the “UniTeam”
