WHILE Star for All Seasons Vilma Santos has announced she’s not running for any elective post in the 2022 national elections despite a number of political parties that want her on their senatorial lineup or thrust her into the vice-presidential race, Superstar Nora Aunor is trying again her luck in the polls after she lost in her governorship bid in Camarines Sur in 2001.
While Vilma admitted she couldn’t perform a nationwide campaign if she would run as senator or vice-president because of the threat of the COVID-19 on a face-to-face consultation with the national voters on the ground, Nora has signified her intention to campaign although on a minimal level in the national scale as a representative of a party-list organization.
Santos has ended her tenure as congresswoman of the lone district of Lipa City in Batangas and has no intention to run for any elective post in the province as she has already served higher posts like being mayor of Lipa in 1998, governor of Batangas Province in 2007 and representative of the Sixth District of Batangas in 2013.
Ate (a term of endearment and respect to an older woman by blood or by affinity) Vi’s husband Ralph Recto will instead run as congressman of Lipa.
Meanwhile, Ate Guy’s solo political career sees action after she filed her Certificate of Candidacy (COC) last week.
Nora in a press statement identified herself as Nora Cabaltera Villamayor, popularly known as Nora Aunor in Philippine Showbiz. She intended to run as a representative of the new party-list NORAA (National Organization for Responsive Advocacies for the Arts).
Aunor has four-pronged cornerstones of her government platform, namely, the advancement of the arts and its artists, promotion of the Filipino youth and education, welfare of the elderlies and well-being of OFWs.
“Sa mahigit limampung taon ko po sa entertainment industry ay marami pong umuudyok sa akin na pasukin po ang public service. Ito na po siguro ang tamang pagkakataon para po pagbigyan ang mga taong nagsusulong at naniniwala (In my more than fifty years in the industry there are a lot of people who have been egging me to run for public service. I think this is the time to heed those who are supporting and believing in me),” announced the actress.