Villaroyo?!?

APRIL 17



Recently, news has been spreading that Presidential candidate, Manny Villar and President Gloria Arroyo has a secret alliance. It has been speculated that President Arroyo is trying to have an allegiance with Manny Villar because of the questionable winnability of LAKAS - KAMPI presidentiable, Gibo Theodoro.

This maybe an issue made up by his opponents in the upcoming presidential race. Although some may raise their eyebrows because Manny Villar clearly shows, most seen in his commercials, that he is against the current Administration.

My question is if this was true, why Manny Villar would risk his image and align himself with the president since it is widely known that President Arroyo is not very popular.

In this regard I try to look for motives if ever Manny Villar is aligning himself with President Arroyo.


Financially wise, it is highly unlikely that Manny Villar is having problems, for he is in fact, one of the richest men in the Philippines with a net worth of $ 940 million according to Forbes.

In regards with influence, I wonder if GMA will help him at all given that GMA has one of the lowest satisfaction ratings as president together with Erap.
Support of voters? Again, very unlikely, because GMA’s popularity has been declining in recent times and any affiliation with her even hurts a presidentiable’s chance of winning a seat in Malacanang (ex. Gibo).


Given this ideas, one may wonder who in the right mind would suggest Manny Villar to align himself with GMA.