{"id":2501,"date":"2009-12-14T01:40:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T06:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2009-12-14T01:40:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T06:40:52","slug":"repostphilippine-left-backs-villar-legarda-abs-cbn-news-online-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/14\/repostphilippine-left-backs-villar-legarda-abs-cbn-news-online-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Philippine left backs Villar, Legarda &#124; ABS-CBN News Online Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Philippine left backs Villar, Legarda<\/strong><br \/>\nby Carmela Fonbuena, abs-cbnNEWS.com\/Newsbreak | 12\/14\/2009 1:52 PM<br \/>\nPrinter-friendly versionPrinter-friendly version | Send to friendSend to friend<br \/>\nMANILA, Philippines &#8211; After months of courtship, presidential candidate Manuel Villar of the Nacionalista Party (NP) succeeded in getting the support of the leftist group Makabayan.<br \/>\nSenatorial aspirants Bayan Muna Satur Ocampo and Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza on Monday officially joined the NP senatorial ticket as &#8220;guest candidates.&#8221;<br \/>\nOcampo and Maza bring with them the support of the eight party-list groups under Makabayan&#8211;Bayan Muna, Gabriela, Anakpawis, Kabataan, Katribu, Migrante, Courage, and the Alliance of Concerned Teachers.<br \/>\n&#8220;Matagal pinag-usapan ang pagsasamang ito. Di naging madali sa magkabilang panig dahil alam kong ito ay kauna-unahang pagkakataon. Nagsimula sa maraming pagkakaiba, sa pagwawakas konti lang pala pagkakaiba,&#8221;  Villar said at a press conference in Quezon City.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am extremely happy with this partnership,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nIt is the first time that the leftist alliance is officially supporting presidential and vice-presidential candidates.<br \/>\n&#8220;Ganun kalaki ang pagtingin namin sa mga kandidatong ito,&#8221; said Ocampo&#8217;s colleague in Bayan Muna, Rep. Teodoro Casi\u00f1o.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs-cbnnews.com\/nation\/12\/14\/09\/philippine-left-backs-villar-legarda\">Philippine left backs Villar, Legarda | ABS-CBN News Online Beta<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is probably the first presidential election where the two front runners both give me hope that the Philippines can be a great country within a lifetime. There is only so much angst I can live with.\u00a0 We can always hope pray and do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine left backs Villar, Legarda by Carmela Fonbuena, abs-cbnNEWS.com\/Newsbreak | 12\/14\/2009 1:52 PM Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly version | Send to friendSend to friend MANILA, Philippines &#8211; After months of courtship, presidential candidate Manuel Villar of the Nacionalista Party (NP) succeeded in getting the support of the leftist group Makabayan. Senatorial aspirants Bayan Muna Satur Ocampo and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/14\/repostphilippine-left-backs-villar-legarda-abs-cbn-news-online-beta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Philippine left backs Villar, Legarda &#124; ABS-CBN News Online Beta&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,62,65,66,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-better-class-of-politician","category-personal-angol","category-philippines","category-politics","category-presidential-election-watch-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}