MANILA - Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando on Wednesday delivered speeches and responded to questions at the Lakas-Kampi-CMD's national executive committee meeting on who its presidential candidate will be in next year's polls.
In his speech, Fernando threw a potential monkey-wrench in the plans of the Lakas-Kampi CMD to choose a standard bearer for the 2010 elections after he urged the party to implement a four-point criteria for the process.
Fernando said the Lakas-Kampi CMD leaders should consider tabling the selection process until the selection criteria he proposed is implemented.
The four-point criteria includes:
1. Every party member be informed of the selection process
2. Set a clear measure and criteria for candidate selection
3. Voting to be done by the party at large with duly designated party members
4. Involve as many party members as possible in the process
Pointing out that he had served the Lakas-Kampi-CMD party since its inception in 1991, Fernando said he would keep his options in case he is not chosen by the party to be its standard-bearer.
"Loyalty and love for party should come first before personal ambition...I'd like to see our party to be worth that loyalty that I have for it over the long years I am with it," he said.
For his part, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said he would leave it up to the collective wisdom and judgment of Lakas-Kampi-CMD leaders on who will be the party's standard bearer.
"This I pledge that I am committed to building and strengthening the party to be the leader once again and to continue its leader in Philippine politics because we mean reform and we mean change. We have delivered and we have done it to the best of our ability. No other government can match the achievements done by this administration," he said.
Teodoro and Fernando are both aspiring to be the Lakas-Kampi CMD standard bearer, with the defense chief believed to have a slight advantage over the MMDA chairman. On Tuesday, a total of 84 Lakas-Kampi-CMD and party-list representatives signed a manifesto supporting Teodoro as Lakas-Kampi-CMD's standard-bearer.
A majority of governors in the League of Provinces of the Philippines have also endorsed the presidential bid of Teodoro.
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