Poll leader Poe takes another shot at Senate seat
Pre-election survey frontrunner and Senator Grace Poe filed her certificate of candidacy on Monday for her re-election as a senator in the 2019 elections less than two years after she was defeated in the presidential race.
Poe, who chairs the Senate Committee on Public Services, is opposed to the government’s plan of phasing out jeepneys and buses plying the streets for 15 years and beyond because the government will only grant a loan of P80,000 to drivers/operators. Each e-jeepney costs P1.8 million. The manufacturers that will build the new e-jeepneys are also not local manufacturers as promised.
"We are not against modernization. We just want it to be inclusive," Poe said in press conference.
Senator Poe files certificate of candidacy for 2019 Senate polls, says Train law is not to blame for skyrocketing prices of basic goods since govt agencies DSWD and DOTR were too slow in releasing aid to poor, an aid provided under Train law @gmanews pic.twitter.com/PsZl7Qm4Ba
— Llanesca T. Panti (@llanescajourno) October 15, 2018
Poe ranked first in the Social Weather Stations commissioned survey in September with a 52 percent rating.
Then neophyte Poe was a surprise topnotcher in the 2013 Senate race with over 20 million votes. Prior to launching her maiden election bid, Poe was chairperson of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board.
But in the 2016 presidential race, Poe only finished third with over nine million votes after leading most of the pre-election surveys.
Poe, however, maintained that her 2016 election loss is still a good thing come 2019.
"Kung 'di tayo nabigyan ng pagkakataon noong 2016 [na tumakbo bilang Presidente], hindi natin maaabot iyong mga taong iyon. Mas maraming nakarinig sa atin, kaya sana hindi pa tayo nakalimutan," Poe added.
Poe was accompanied by her mother, actress Susan Roces, when she filed her COC on Monday. —KG, GMA News