Señeres will step aside for Duterte on three conditions

Presidential hopeful OFW Party-list Rep. Roy Señeres said in the event the Commission on Elections (Comelec) rejects the substitution in the case of Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) Chair Martin Diño of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), he is willing to give way to his fraternity brod Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on three conditions.

“I will allow him to substitute for me if he will repent his sins in connection with pro-death activities (in Davao City),” said Señeres on his first condition.

Second, the straight talking Dutere should also stop criticizing Senator Grace Poe’s citizenship if he wants Seneres to give way.

“I know I can convince him (in this aspect). Malambot naman ang puso niya sa mga babae,” stated Señeres. (He has a soft heart for women).

Duterte has hem and hawed about his plans for 2016 only to decide finally not to run when he filed his Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for Davao city mayor. His plan appeared definite until the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) ruled that Sen. Poe was a natural-born citizen qualified to run for president.

Duterte said he could not allow someone who only possessed “presumptive Filipino citizenship” to run for president prompting him to rethink his options.

Protect workers “Senator Grace Poe is truly a Filipino. She talks like a Filipino, she walks like a Filipino, she eats Filipino food, she looks like a Filipino and she does not even have an American accent,” said Señeres, a lawyer and former chairman of the National Labor Relations Commission.

And for his third condition, Señeres said the city mayor should take up the cudgels against employment abuses committed against some 15 million of the country’s labor force who have been victims of contractualization.

“He should also be the commander in chief of the overseas Filipino workers who can protect them. Unlike President Aquino who even praised airport extortionists involved in the ‘tanim-bala’ incidents,” said Seneres.

In the same news forum, Señeres disclosed that the Commisison on Elections (Comelec) has accredited the Filipino Family Party as an official political party who can participate in the 2016 elections.

“The platform of the FFP is focused on the welfare and protection of the Filipino family as the basic foundation of the country,” Seneres, a former labor attaché to Washington, DC from 1990 to 1993, and ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 1994 to 1998 said. (Ben R. Rosario)