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Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino spokesman Ralph Calinisan accused Nacionalista Party presidential bet Sen. Manny Villar’s campaign of copying a campaign ad of Argentinean presidential hopeful Ricardo Hipolito Lopez Murphy.

Calinisan said, “The concept, visual cues and even the execution are identical.There is no other way to describe Sen. Villar’s but a cheap rip-off of the original.”

The ad features numerous phrases read sequentially, but when subsequently read in reverse, the phrases convey a different meaning. The viewer’s attention is guided by a bar that highlights the current phrase being read.

“He (Villar) even chose orange as his official campaign color, obviously mimicking President Joseph Estrada who has been using orange as his official campaign color for more than 20 years,” Calinisan added.

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Senator Manuel Villar Jr., Nacionalista Party candidate for President that his failure to answer the allegations hurled against him affected his performance in surveys about the electorate’s presidential preferences.

“Yung black propaganda na hindi totoo, naging masyado kaming mabait (We’ve been too kind in handling that false kind of black propaganda),” he said. Villar said he was saddened with the result of a recent Pulse Asia survey, which showed him 12 percentage points behind leading presidential bet Sen. Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III of the Liberal Party.

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Gubernatorial candidate and political kingpin Luis ”Chavit” Singson bared his support behind the presidential bid of Nacionalista Party standard-bearer Sen. Manny Villar. Singson declared he resigned from the Lakas-Kampi-CMD party to support the NP bet.

Singson who is known for his command vote and a highly-respected Ilocos Sur political leader,declared that Lakas-Kampi-CMD local leaders in the province will follow suit in the coming days to throw their support behind Villar. Singson said in a jest he is currently under the ”Lakas-loob” party.

Full story at Chavit, Ilocos leaders leave Lakas for Villar

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Nacionalista Party vice-presidential bet Sen Loren Legarda said she is qualified to be the next vice president of the land.

When asked by fellow vice presidential candidate Bayani Fernando whether she is capable of handling a much different job, aside from lawmaking, she said she has enough experience to qualify her for the job. Legarda and Fernando, along with other vice-presidential bets, faced each other in the “Harapan” televised debate held late Sunday night at the La Consolacion College.

Legarda said that aside from crafting laws, she was involved in humanitarian projects like helping victims of calamities last year and assisting in the rescue of two military officers who were held hostage by the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, and scholarships to dozens of deserving students.

In the same debate, Legarda also mentioned the laws she had authored like Clean Air Act, Free Vaccination Act, Senior Citizens Act and lately the Climate Change Act.

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Silvestre “Bebot” Bello III Tuesday expressed dismay over the defection of 22 mayors and Bukidnon Governor Jose Ma. Zubiri from the administration party to the Nacionalista Party. Bello, Lakas-Kampi-CMD senatorial candidate, said it will likely not affect the chances of victory of their presidential bet Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. in the May 10 elections.

In a statement, Bello said he was saddened by the decision of the governor and 22 mayors who reportedly abandoned the Lakas-Kampi-CMD to support the camp of Nacionalista Party presidential bet Manuel “Manny” Villar.

“Anybody loyal to the Lakas party can call it a good riddance but we respect their decision,” said Bello.

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Nacionalista Party standard-bearer Manny Villar said  that the P5 billion yearly budget for Armed Forces modernization is pitifully inadequate as he vowed to bankroll a weapons upgrade from dividends of an anti-corruption drive.

In typical business fashion, Villar describes how he will fund the program:

• The Philippines loses P250 billion to corruption a year, but he believes “if we can get 10 percent from an anticorruption drive the amount will be enough to fund the modernization program of the military.”
• “If we can curb this purported corruption in the military by at least 50 percent, we can generate savings that could be channeled to the purchase of the basic needs of the soldiers in the field like combat boots, combat rations and ammunition”
• “I am thinking of allocating 10 percent of the annual VAT revenue for a replacement program of military ships, aircraft and other hardware.” This translates to a minimum P15 billion “annual fund to replace flying and floating coffins with modern assets.”
• “we can explore barter arrangements in which Philippine-made products can be exchanged for military hardware”
• streamlining AFP expenditures will result in savings can be re-channeled for its modernization.
• “I have been told that there are ways in which we can cut multi-billion-peso annual POL (petroleum oil and lubricant) budget and send whatever is saved to the men on the field”

If elected, Villar said he would tuck in the annual budget he will send to Congress a “meaty” AFP modernization fund “that will be promptly released and properly spent.”

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