THEN Sen. Mar Roxas was the presumptive presidential candidate of the Liberal Party for the 2010 election but he yielded the party nomination to fellow LP Sen. Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd. He was not only being realistic about his chances in the 2010 polls in sliding down to the vice presidency. Roxas kept in the back burner his personal interest, his life-long ambition to be president in favor of a friend who had better chances of getting elected.
In the 2010 election campaign, several family members and friends of Aquino junked Roxas in favor of then Makati Mayor Jojo Binay who eventually won. Aquino should have prevailed on his relatives and friends not to support Binay if he were a true friend of Roxas but didn’t. Yet, Roxas never took this against him and remained loyal to his friend, the President.
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