IF performance were the sole qualification for presidential wannabes, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Mar Roxas should already be out of the running. He has been weighed, he has been measured and he has been found wanting.

It seems it is only Mar’s Liberal Party (LP) allies and Balay-faction loyalists who are salivating at his almost certain endorsement by PNoy as the party’s standard bearer for the 2016 presidential race. This even though Mar has consistently ranked near bottom in surveys despite the P10-billion funding thrown his way by PNoy to buy new police cars and fire trucks, and another P13-billion for water supply and low-cost housing projects.

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