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Villar concedes to Aquino #eleksyon2010 #purplethumb

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Nacionalista Party’s standard bearer Sen. Manny Villar has conceded to Liberal Party’s Noynoy Aquino in a press con he has called this 11AM at his family-owned StarMall mall in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.

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Latest official partial COMELEC count puts Aquino at 12,233,002 votes vs. Villar’s 4,329,215.

Villar, whose vow to eradicate poverty owing to his claim to being poor as a boy has been consistently vilified by non-believers, said that he has done his best to offer himself up and his plans to alleviate the condition of the poor but accepts that the people has decided and thus respects its decision. He added that he didn’t take his family with him to the press conference because they have been subjected to enough stress already.

He further reiterated his intention and vow to help the poor in ‘other’ ways and has assured party-mates that he and the Nacionalista Party will be behind them all the way until their last votes are counted. He also congratulated Noynoy Aquino.

Senator Villar, people can say whatever they want — they have called you many things and your detractors seem to have spared no word to demonize you as a corrupt real estate billionaire. So be it shrewdness or an attempt to clean your public image, I commend you for this.

It takes a lot of courage to gather the media and read your statement for all the world to see and hear without your wife and children by your side. This is a valiant move characteristic of a good and strong leader.

In the end, it would be saddening if we realize that none of those issues thrown at you were ever true. I have a strange feeling that all this noise will magically vanish after the winner is proclaimed because it has already served its purpose.

It would have been an entirely different ball game if the late president Cory Aquino didn’t die and if former president Erap Estrada was not allowed to run again for president. But then again, destiny stubbornly takes its course all the time. And doomed is the man who audaciously try to get in its way.

I can only pray that the hopes of 12 million people (and counting) will not be crushed in the coming days and months.

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I write songs, essays, and books about the messy overlap between money, overwhelm, creativity, identity, and rebuilding. Much of my work circles around what happens when life stops feeling manageable — and how we try to think clearly, make decisions, and keep moving anyway.

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