Lopez endorses Mar Roxas for president

FORMER Iloilo second district Representative Albertito Lopez has announced his endorsement of Senator Manuel Roxas II of the Liberal Party (LP) to be the next president of the country.

"If the election for president will be held today, Senator Roxas will win handily against anybody," Lopez, 75, said last March 25 at the Amigo Terrace Hotel here.

He predicts that Roxas will garner a margin of at least 2 million votes in Western Visayas against his nearest rival, citing the case of Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago who amassed more than 2 million votes against her closest rival, former Speaker Ramon Mitra, in Western Visayas, during the 1992 presidential elections.

Santiago, a native of La Paz district here, lost to Fidel V. Ramos because she was cheated, Lopez said. He did not elaborate.