Cayetano, an independent,obtained (48.2%) of votes followed by fellow incumbents Jinggoy Estrada ( 47.3%) and Mar Roxas (46.0%). Estrada has been mentioned as potential vice presidential material; Roxas as president.
Cayetano, sister of senate Blue Ribbon chairperson Peter Cayetano, currently chairs the senate committees on health and environment and is the principal author of the Anti-Hospital Detention Act of 2007 (RA 9439), Oil Spill Liability Act of 2007 (RA 9483), Anti Rabies Act of 2007 (RA 9482) and co-author of the Cheaper and Quality Medicine Acts of 2008 (RA 9502) which was enacted recently.
Pia who is a health buff and a breastfeeding advocate also placed second in the March senatorial surveys of Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations. Pia and her brother Peter are slowly moving out of the shadow of their illustrious patriarch the late senator Rene Cayetano and are individually proving their worth in the senate chamber.
The July elections survey would show an 8-4 Opposition winning slate based on 12 slots.
The winning Opposition probables (aside from the above three) Cayetano, Estrada and Roxas are: former senate president Franklin Drilon (44.1%), opposition losing senatorial candidate Koko Pimentel Jr. (39.0%), the comebacking former senator Serge Osmena (35.6%),senator Jamby Madrigal (34.5%) and former senator Jun Magsaysay (30.6%)
The winnable administration candidates would include: senator Miriam Santiago (37.2%), NEDA Director Ralph Recto (35.6%), senator Bong Revilla (34.6%) and anti-drug czar Tito Sotto (26.5%).
With a margin of error of 3%, statistically tied for 12th place with Sotto would be administration senator Juan Ponce Enrile (26.3%) and oppositionist Makati Mayor Jojo Binay (25.2%).
Lost in the senate radar are administration senators Dick Gordon ( 21.5%) and Lito Lapid (18.2%).
Big political names that did not make it to the July Top 12 senate probables survey include: Michael Defensor, former speaker Joe De Venecia, former senator Ernesto Maceda, former congressman Butch Pichay and MMDA chairman Bayani Fernando.All GMA Cabinet secretaries registered poor results in the nationwide survey.
Two named actors Ed Manzano (15.2%) and Willie Revillame (12,9%) poored farelu in the survey confirming the trend that the wave of actor-politicians for the nationsal scene had ended with the death of Fernando Poe Jr. Only Erap Estrada is a viable showbiz name , primarily because he is former president ,vice president , senator and mayor.
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