The statement intrigued some in the community, who noted its potential for double meaning: Is it a message for Filipinos not to vote for Binay, or for Binay to drop his aspirations for the presidency?
Binay is not the only politician likely, or being urged by supporters, to run for president. There are others, such as Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II, who is 58; Senator Grace Poe, 46; Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, 44; Senator Francis Escudero, 45; and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, 70.
Binay’s popularity is being overshadowed by investigations into bank accounts owned by his family and contracts approved while the family ran the financial city of Makati.
Fidel Ramos to PH voters in NYC:
Electing a highly experienced and corrupt politician is like placing a huge python inside a chicken farm, it will hide, very silent, even reproduce and they would reign supreme gobbling and fatten themselves with pleasure. Any rooster who would fight back would be constricted and eaten as well.