‘Agonizing’ Legarda to bare 2010 plans next week

Senator Loren Legarda will announce next week her plans for the 2010 elections, but that is if the weather cooperates. "Barring any extreme weather condition, climatic changes, kung walang mangyayaring malaking sakuna at kung walang malaking bagyo at delubyo ay bibigyan ko ng pormal na deklarasyon hindi lang ang akin personal na tatakbuhan kundi na rin ang aking malawakan, maliwanag na progresibong makabayan at makakalikasang plataporma sa susunod na linggo," Legarda said Thursday during the weekly news forum in the Senate. (If no big disasters will happen then I will formally announce not only my personal plan but also my wide, clear, progressive, nationalistic and environment-friendly platform next week.) Legarda had earlier said she is being wooed by five presidential aspirants to be their running-mate. In Thursday’s briefing, Legarda said two of the five had stopped pursuing her. “I’m agonizing. Andun pa rin.. siguro tatlo na lang (Three are still wooing me)," she said without identifying those who are asking her to be their running mate. A source close to Legarda said the five were former President Joseph Estrada; Senators Francis Escudero, Manuel Villar Jr., and Richard Gordon; and Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. Escudero, Legarda’s party mate at the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), is also set to announce his political plans next week. Legarda said her announcement would be separate from Escudero’s. Legarda refused to give a hint on her political plans, saying it would not matter to the five million Filipinos affected by cyclones “Pepeng" and “Ondoy." “Kaya nga ako focus na focus sa trabaho dahil ang passion ko talaga ay maglingkod (I'm really focused on my job these days). At this point in my life, I really know the problems of our country and I know what to do and what I can do," she said. - GMANews.TV