Senator Benigno Aquino III of the Liberal Party, who ran on an anti-corruption platform, won the 2010 election with 42.08% of the votes defeating Joseph Estrada,
a former president who was deposed in 2001 after scandals of massive
corruption, and several others. Meanwhile, Estrada's running mate, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), defeated Aquino's running mate, Senator Mar Roxas of the Liberal Party and several others, in the vice presidential election.[5]
Roxas eventually accused Binay of electoral fraud in the Presidential
Electoral Tribunal, citing that some of his votes were recorded as null votes.[6]
Both Binay and Roxas were subsequently appointed by Aquino to his cabinet, with Binay heading the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council,[7] and Roxas first being given the Transportation and Communications portfolio, then finally named as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government, after the ban of appointing losing candidates expired a year after Aquino took office on June 30, 2010.[8] As of 2014, the tribunal had still not yet acted upon the preliminary motions of both parties and on Binay's counter-protest; the suit is expected to still not have been resolved by the time President Aquino's term expires.[9]
For the midterm 2013 Senate election, Aquino and Roxas formed the Team PNoy coalition;[10] Estrada's PMP and Binay's PDP-Laban forged an electoral alliance, the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).[11] Team PNoy won nine Senate seats against UNA's three.[12]
In March 2014, PDP-Laban withdrew from UNA, a week after Binay resigned as party chairman, due "to differences with its leaders". Party president Aquilino Pimentel III had a public quarrel with Binay over Juan Miguel Zubiri's inclusion in UNA's 2013 senatorial slate, whom Pimentel had accused of cheating in the 2007 Senate election.[13]
Several other stalwarts of UNA, such as senators Juan Ponce Enrile and Jinggoy Estrada, who had manifested his intention to run as Binay's running mate, and others such as Senator Bong Revilla of Lakas-CMD, who is planning to run for president, are currently detained due to their involvement in the pork barrel scam.[14][15] No personalities linked with the Liberal Party but also involved in the scam were investigated; these actions by the government, which it says is part of its anti-corruption drive, have been cited by UNA as "political persecution".[16]
On July 2014, Renato Bondal, a defeated mayoral candidate in the 2013 Makati mayoral election, filed plunder cases against Makati mayor Jejomar Binay, Jr. and his father, the vice president, to the Ombudsman. By the next month, a subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Committee composed solely of Pimentel, along with Nacionalista Party members Alan Peter Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes IV, began still ongoing Senate hearings against Binay on his alleged his corruption while serving as mayor of Makati, beginning with the alleged overpriced annex building of the Makati City Hall.[17] It was followed by hearings on alleged corruption on deals supplying Makati senior citizens with birthday cakes,[18] an agricultural estate in Rosario, Batangas that Binay allegedly owns,[19] the allegedly overpriced Makati Science High School,[20] and the relocation of Makati residents to Calauan, Laguna to a community without basic necessities.[21]
Binay had consistently denied any wrongdoing,[22] and from owning the Rosario estate,[23] but had never appeared at the Senate.[24]
UNA Secretary General JV Bautista branded the investigations as part of
the "Operation Plan Stop Nognog", insinuating on Binay's dark skin,
with Roxas, Cayetano and Trillanes allegedly behind it to prevent Binay
from becoming president. He accused billionaire businessman Salvador
Zamora as its financier.[25] In May 2015, the Court of Appeals ordered the 242 bank accounts belonging to Binay to be frozen for six months, when it granted the petition of the Anti-Money Laundering Council and of the Ombudsman. Binay's camp had alleged certain people from the Liberal Party to be behind the freeze order,[26] a charge President Aquino, in a Bombo Radyo interview, himself denied.[27]
By late May 2015, the subcommittee report recommending the filing of a plunder (corruption worth more than 50 million pesos) complaint against Binay was signed by all three subcommittee members and Grace Poe.[28] By early June, ten senators had already signed the subcommittee report, making it official and available to be debated upon in the Senate floor.[29] A month later, Binay sued Cayetano, Trillanes and several others for 200 million pesos in damages at the Makati Regional Trial Court for "well-organized and orchestrated effort" to damage his reputation and worsen his chances of becoming president.[30]
Meanwhile, Aquino held several meetings with Roxas, Poe and Francis Escudero on who should be the standard bearer of the Liberal Party. While none of them had announced their preferences at that time, Aquino is expected to announce his preferred candidate after his final State of the Nation Address late in July. Congressional heads Franklin Drilon and Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. denied that Liberal Party members had been dissatisfied with Aquino's indecision, saying that the party is still united.[31]
On early July, Binay launched his party, the United Nationalist Alliance.[32] Later that month, Aquino did endorse Roxas for president, which the latter accepted.[33] In August, Rodrigo Duterte, the Davao City mayor who had been a subject of a strong online following urging him to run, announced his intention to retire from politics after his mayoral term ends in 2016.[34] Poe announced her intention to seek the presidency by mid-September,[35] followed by Escudero's announcing that he'll be her running mate a day later.[36] Several days later, Cayetano announced his vice presidential candidacy, preferring to be Duterte's running mate.
On October 3. Trillanes formally announced his vice presidential campaign as an independent, supporting Poe's presidential campaign.[37] Days later, Leni Robredo, the representative from Camarines Sur and widow of former Secretary of the Interior and Local Government Jesse Robredo who died in a plane crash on 2012, accepted the offer of the Liberal Party to be Roxas' running mate.[38] Also on that day, Senator Bongbong Marcos announced his candidacy as vice president.[39] A week later, after being nominated by UNA, Senator Gregorio Honasan announced that he would be Binay's running mate.[40] A day later, on the launch of her new book, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago announced her presidential candidacy;[41] a couple of days later, she announced that Marcos would be her running mate.[42]
At the final day of the filing of candidacies, Duterte did not show up; instead, the PDP-Laban nominated Martin Diño, chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption.[43] At the end of the day, more than a hundred people registered as presidential candidates,
Both Binay and Roxas were subsequently appointed by Aquino to his cabinet, with Binay heading the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council,[7] and Roxas first being given the Transportation and Communications portfolio, then finally named as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government, after the ban of appointing losing candidates expired a year after Aquino took office on June 30, 2010.[8] As of 2014, the tribunal had still not yet acted upon the preliminary motions of both parties and on Binay's counter-protest; the suit is expected to still not have been resolved by the time President Aquino's term expires.[9]
For the midterm 2013 Senate election, Aquino and Roxas formed the Team PNoy coalition;[10] Estrada's PMP and Binay's PDP-Laban forged an electoral alliance, the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).[11] Team PNoy won nine Senate seats against UNA's three.[12]
In March 2014, PDP-Laban withdrew from UNA, a week after Binay resigned as party chairman, due "to differences with its leaders". Party president Aquilino Pimentel III had a public quarrel with Binay over Juan Miguel Zubiri's inclusion in UNA's 2013 senatorial slate, whom Pimentel had accused of cheating in the 2007 Senate election.[13]
Several other stalwarts of UNA, such as senators Juan Ponce Enrile and Jinggoy Estrada, who had manifested his intention to run as Binay's running mate, and others such as Senator Bong Revilla of Lakas-CMD, who is planning to run for president, are currently detained due to their involvement in the pork barrel scam.[14][15] No personalities linked with the Liberal Party but also involved in the scam were investigated; these actions by the government, which it says is part of its anti-corruption drive, have been cited by UNA as "political persecution".[16]
On July 2014, Renato Bondal, a defeated mayoral candidate in the 2013 Makati mayoral election, filed plunder cases against Makati mayor Jejomar Binay, Jr. and his father, the vice president, to the Ombudsman. By the next month, a subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Committee composed solely of Pimentel, along with Nacionalista Party members Alan Peter Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes IV, began still ongoing Senate hearings against Binay on his alleged his corruption while serving as mayor of Makati, beginning with the alleged overpriced annex building of the Makati City Hall.[17] It was followed by hearings on alleged corruption on deals supplying Makati senior citizens with birthday cakes,[18] an agricultural estate in Rosario, Batangas that Binay allegedly owns,[19] the allegedly overpriced Makati Science High School,[20] and the relocation of Makati residents to Calauan, Laguna to a community without basic necessities.[21]
Makati City Hall (taller building to the right) as viewed from the Pasig River; the allegedly overpriced annex is the building to the left.
By late May 2015, the subcommittee report recommending the filing of a plunder (corruption worth more than 50 million pesos) complaint against Binay was signed by all three subcommittee members and Grace Poe.[28] By early June, ten senators had already signed the subcommittee report, making it official and available to be debated upon in the Senate floor.[29] A month later, Binay sued Cayetano, Trillanes and several others for 200 million pesos in damages at the Makati Regional Trial Court for "well-organized and orchestrated effort" to damage his reputation and worsen his chances of becoming president.[30]
Meanwhile, Aquino held several meetings with Roxas, Poe and Francis Escudero on who should be the standard bearer of the Liberal Party. While none of them had announced their preferences at that time, Aquino is expected to announce his preferred candidate after his final State of the Nation Address late in July. Congressional heads Franklin Drilon and Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. denied that Liberal Party members had been dissatisfied with Aquino's indecision, saying that the party is still united.[31]
On early July, Binay launched his party, the United Nationalist Alliance.[32] Later that month, Aquino did endorse Roxas for president, which the latter accepted.[33] In August, Rodrigo Duterte, the Davao City mayor who had been a subject of a strong online following urging him to run, announced his intention to retire from politics after his mayoral term ends in 2016.[34] Poe announced her intention to seek the presidency by mid-September,[35] followed by Escudero's announcing that he'll be her running mate a day later.[36] Several days later, Cayetano announced his vice presidential candidacy, preferring to be Duterte's running mate.
On October 3. Trillanes formally announced his vice presidential campaign as an independent, supporting Poe's presidential campaign.[37] Days later, Leni Robredo, the representative from Camarines Sur and widow of former Secretary of the Interior and Local Government Jesse Robredo who died in a plane crash on 2012, accepted the offer of the Liberal Party to be Roxas' running mate.[38] Also on that day, Senator Bongbong Marcos announced his candidacy as vice president.[39] A week later, after being nominated by UNA, Senator Gregorio Honasan announced that he would be Binay's running mate.[40] A day later, on the launch of her new book, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago announced her presidential candidacy;[41] a couple of days later, she announced that Marcos would be her running mate.[42]
At the final day of the filing of candidacies, Duterte did not show up; instead, the PDP-Laban nominated Martin Diño, chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption.[43] At the end of the day, more than a hundred people registered as presidential candidates,
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