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Trillanes to run for higher office in 2016


Senator Antonio Trillanes IV will run for a higher position in the 2016 elections but did not disclose which position he is eyeing.

"Kung anong posisyon yun specifically, we will abide by the Nacionalista Party," he said in a "24 Oras" report aired on Saturday.



He said that former senator Manuel Villar Jr., party president, has said the NP will make that decision in December.

Trillanes is serving his second term at the Senate.

A former Navy officer, Trillanes ran for the Senate in 2007 while detained over his participation in mutinies against the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

In 2010, President Benigno Aquino III signed a proclamation granting him and other members of the Magdalo amnesty for joining the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny, February 2006 Marine standoff and the 2007 Manila Peninsula incident.

He joined the Nacionalista Party in 2012 and ran under the Liberal Party-led Team Pnoy coalition in the 2013 elections.

Trillanes pushes "Truth Commission" on PDAF scam

Trillanes also appealed to President Benigno Aquino III to create an independent truth commission to investigate the pork barrel scam, the same report said.

The senator said the public is becoming skeptical about the separate investigations being conducted by the Senate, the Office of the Ombudsman, and the Justice department.

He believes the formation of a truth commission composed of trustworthy and reputable individuals from the media, judiciary and academe will help ease the public's doubt.

But, Trillanes said, the commission will only be allowed to give recommendations and cannot bypass the authority of the ombudsman, the report said. — JDS, GMA News

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