Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, he and Interior Minister Manuel "Mar" Roxas as a candidate to succeed him in next year's elections, the government said on Friday that had been taken.
Roxas, Aquino announced six years ago in the same conference room where the declaration, the son of the late democracy icon Corazon Aquino to give way to the presidential ambitions of his own, made racks.
The 58-year-old former member of Congress and the Senate of the old brigade Aquino dominant Liberal Party is honored to be authorized by the holder.
Grandson commitment and the "right way" to continue after World War II, the namesake of the first Philippine president, Aquino's program to fight poverty and corruption.
He chose not to Roxas, Aquino said: "It was a debt of gratitude to the interests of only one country, other than the man who owes not have any competence in the coach."
Constitution, the President and the Vice President for the last six years, set a single word, can not run again because Aquino.
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Members of the "People Power" revolution in 1986 that overthrew dictator Ferdinand Marcos was sworn in as president after his mother's historic Independence Hall, where the Korean Aquino, Aquino's statement cheered by hundreds of supporters.
"This is such a great honor," Roxas said. "" With this support, you support the dreams and the power of each of the 100 million Filipinos .... and not to deviate from the right direction ".
Roxas, Aquino fellow contest national elections in 2010, but the main business district of Makati City in Manila mayor, who is now under investigation for alleged corruption during the tenure Jejomar Binay in a separate election, but was defeated.
Binay he will run for president next year, and the recent elections, despite allegations of corruption Roxas has already said that before.
The independent pollster Social Weather Stations Bo, who was at the forefront, and the grace of humility Senator in third place in June, a poll showed Roxas. Aquino ally, Bo whether he will run for the presidency, has not said, and is said to have asked Vice President Aquino to run.
Bo, lost the presidential election in 2004, is under arrest on charges of corruption and electoral sabotage Hospital President Gloria Arroyo, Aquino's predecessor, was won by fraud, which has been tarnished by the popular action movie star Fernando Poe, the late daughter.