Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Binay avoids media after talk with bishops


MANILA - Vice-President Jejomar Binay was still elusive to media a day after President Benigno Aquino's statement saying Binay can leave the Cabinet if he feels he's no longer happy to be a part of the Aquino administration.

Aquino has said that Binay is obliged as the government's number 2 man to present solutions to the problems that the country is facing, but never did in any meeting that they have had.

Binay refused to talk about politics Tuesday morning at an event of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines in Marikina.

He told reporters he will give an interview after his scheduled 2 p.m. dialogue with the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines at Arzobispado de Manila in Intramuros.

Binay arrived at 2:08 p.m. for the meeting. A staff of the vice-president said bishops wanted the meeting to be private, without media coverage.

But the vice-president's staff said Binay will leave the Arzobispado by foot and will grant interview to reporters before boarding his car.

At 4:29pm, Binay's white Land Cruiser slowly moved out from the gate of Arzobispado, with news crews tailing the vehicle.

A couple of meters from the gate, Binay's vehicle stopped, the passenger's door slightly opened but moved again, this time faster towards a waiting security vehicle, before making a turn at the corner and vanishing from the media's eyes.

source: www.abs-cbnnews.com