Jamby files CoC for president

Senator Maria Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal on Tuesday filed her certificate of candidacy (CoC) for president "out of the dictates of my conscience."

Madrigal, who is running as an independent, said that her candidacy is not a matter of personal or political ambition. "As history has proven again and again, the safe and easy way is not always the right way."

Madrigal will be running without a vice president or senatorial slate. This, according to her, "allows all like-minded candidates and people to unite under a shared and genuine progressive vision and platform of government, based on principled politics.”
She is the second serious presidential aspirant to file without a running mate nor a senatorial slate. Days earlier, environmental activist Nicanor Perlas filed for president solo, too.
Madrigal said her candidacy will do justice to the martyrdom of her grandfather, Jose Abad Santos.
Madrigal takes pride in the fact that she is not a candidate of established political parties or big businessmen.
Madrigal said that, if elected, she will "favor only the Filipino people."
"To improve the people's lives, we must invest in them directly and not through intermediaries. Dapat bigyang puhunan ang bawat Pilipino," she said.
Madrigal, scion of one of the richest families in the country, was a presidential adviser during the time of President Joseph Estrada. At the time, she was able to work with Vice President Gloria Arroyo at the social welfare department.
After Estrada’s ouster in 2001, Madrigal ran for senator under Estrada’s Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino but lost. She tried again in 2004 and won, landing 4th in the race, a feat for somebody who previously lost.
Madrigal has taken an oppositionist stance for most of her term in the Senate, pushing investigations into alleged corruption of people in the Palace and even her fellow senators.

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source: ABS-CBNnews.com