Binay’s presidential run was launched to drum up his presidential campaign focusing on the achievements, executive abilities and position on issues besetting the country today including his pro-poor and pro-people platforms of government, according to former Candaba Mayor Jerry Pelayo.
The launch highlighted the oath-taking of some 4,000 regional, provincial and municipal members who adhere to the platforms of government Binay wants to pursue should he be elected president of the country in the 2016 national elections, Pelayo added.
The members of the movement came from Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales.
The oath-taking was witnessed by Mark Allen Sison of Angeles City, former Zambales Congresswoman Mitos Magsaysay, Professor Tomas Lopez of the University of Makati, Undersecretary Benjamin Martinez Jr., former Magalang Mayor Lyndon Cunanan, Councilor Rondon Mercado, and Pelayo among others.
Pelayo said, “this movement will carry out good governance, transparent, just and fair elections focused on the agenda of development and economic productivity and prosperity of the people as pledged by the vice president once he assumes the presidency.” He announced that “definitely, Jojo Binay is president in-waiting and we fully and voluntarily support him as our presidential candidate in 2016. So, we have to empower local volunteers to experiment with positive and creative ways to achieve our common goals.”
Pelayo added that organizations will also be created to oversee facets of the campaign like media targeting programs for undecided voters and demographic data; paid advertising; voter identifications and turnout; communications, polling, research and rapid response; and the coordination of the operations of other RPGs around the country.
Sison said the movement is a driving force designed to supplement the campaign activities of United Nationalist Alliance’s (UNA) presidential candidate.
He said this group is moving to set up coordinated national, region-by-region operations down to the barangay level that is equivalent of a full presidential campaign.
“With good information and proper support, small and local teams can sometimes do better than large, distant organizations.
Smaller sectoral groups, voluntary and dedicated associations and nimble, bottom up teams are preferable to large, bureaucratic organizations,” Sison said.
