Gloria's Party Won't Court Manny Pacquiao Again?

[MikeLigalig.com]

By Christian V. Esguerra
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Having all but lost congressional hopeful Manny Pacquiao to the Nacionalista Party, Malacañang made it clear, on Sunday, that it would make no effort to win him back.

But Gabriel Claudio, President Macapagal-Arroyo’s political adviser, gave the international boxing icon a piece of unsolicited advice, saying it would be better if he would stay away from any political party in his bid to win a congressional seat in 2010.
“If NP is interested in getting Manny Pacquiao, we will not try to compete with them or make a counter-offer,” he said in a text message.

(However, an information gathered by the Philippine Daily Inquirer from a source in the Lakas-Kampi-CMD showed that the party’s presidential aspirant Gilberto Teodoro Jr. has been exerting effort to keep Pacquiao as an ally of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD.)

Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said the administration would not take it against Pacquiao if he would run under the banner of Senator Manuel Villar’s NP in the 2010 elections.

“This is something between Manny Villar and Manny Pacquiao,” he said in his weekly media forum aired at government-run DzRB. “We will not interfere and we will not take it against (him) if that happens.”

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