With her husband and son in tow, Kris Aquino-Yap joined the presidential campaign on Wednesday of her brother, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, and voiced confidence she would get into the bandwagon her influential uncle, Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco.
Boosted by basketball superstar James Yap and son Baby James, some 80,000 people crammed the Joaquin Enriquez Sports Center in Zamboanga City, waiting all afternoon to see the TV celebrity and the standard-bearer of the Liberal Party.
“I’ve tried but it’s really their decision,” said Kris of a meeting with Cojuangco, chair of San Miguel Corp. and head of the National People’s Coalition (NPC).
“Di ba makapal ang mukha ko?” she told reporters. It translates to I have no shame.
She added, “We do have a good relationship.”
The TV star was in Iloilo Thursday with Cojuangco’s daughter, Liza Cojuangco-Cruz, who has declared her support for Noynoy.
While administration presidential candidate Gilberto Teodoro Jr. is Liza’s first cousin, Kris said, “They still chose Noynoy even though he’s just a second cousin. I hope that she helps us in convincing her parents.”
The NPC is not supporting any presidential candidate in May.
‘I’m a tattler’
Kris admitted that her family was a bit concerned at the narrowing gap between Noynoy and Sen. Manny Villar, the Nacionalista Party standard-bearer.
Getting Cojuangco’s political and financial support could be the key to Noynoy’s victory.
But while Kris has been allowed to recruit financial backers for Noynoy, the deals are handled by her other sisters.
“You know, I’m a tattler, so there is no money passing through me and I have no knowledge of it. My brother is smart; he keeps me away from this stuff because he knows I can’t tell a lie. So It’s better that I don’t know anything,” said Kris.
She suggested that Malacañang be covered like her show biz-oriented talk shows “The Buzz” and “SNN” to ensure transparency “since no rumor or transaction will go unreported.”
Aside from providing Noynoy’s rallies with star power, Kris said that she was also taking an active role in his media ads as well as his public image.
Kris told her brother to have a botox treatment to improve his looks but Noynoy was “adamant about leaving his face alone.”
“He told us that we were making him over to look like John Lloyd Cruz,” she said.
Should Noynoy win, Kris said that she and her sisters would leave their brother alone and continue with their private lives outside the Palace.
She said she did not spend a single night in Malacañang when her mother, the late Corazon Aquino, was president. They stayed at the adjacent Arlegui Residence.
Kids have own plans
“During that time, we lived together because of the coup d’etat. I’m just praying that if Noynoy wins, there would be no more coups so there won’t be a need to give us security because we don’t want to be an added burden to the government,” said Kris.
But her two children have their plans. “My two sons are ‘feeling,’ they told them they want to live with Tito Noy. Nagfe-feeling-an si Josh and Baby James. So I warned them I would leave them with him,” said Kris in jest.
Kris said that her husband would continue to play professional basketball because at 29, he was still too young. Besides, she said her “babe” was set to get a juicy bonus and contract extension after he led his team to a championship last week.
She does not see herself taking up the duties of a First Lady if her brother wins. “It’s up to him, he’s 50 years old,” she said, adding that she didn’t want to fill that role “because we’ll just fight.”
She also said she did not give her brother unsolicited advice.
“Me giving him advice? He’s the one telling me to relax because I’m the one hyper in the family. He always tells me that his favorite text is ‘Kristina, relax.’ If
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