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<figure class="op-social"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="383" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f87wFkRC4AM" width="510"></iframe></figure>MANILA - For Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte becoming a president spells disaster for the Philippines.&quot;It&#x27;s going to be a disaster for the country,&quot; Trillanes, who is running for Vice President, told Lynda Jumilla in an interview on ANC&#x27;s Beyond Politics.Trillanes said Duterte&#x27;s tough leadership style may not work on a national level.&quot;You don&#x27;t just say &#x27;I&#x27;m going to rid criminality in 3-6 months.&#x27; What are you going to do? Are they going to implement the &#x27;Pol Pot formula&#x27; which has failed before? Or a milder version which is a draconian environment like the Martial Law years?&quot; he said.READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/regions/11/21/15/duterte-decides-to-run-for-president">Duterte decides to run for president</a>When asked to choose between Vice President Jejomar Binay and Duterte, Trillanes said the country may be better off with Binay than with the tough-talking mayor as president.&quot;I can&#x27;t imagine myself saying this, but it&#x27;s going to be so much worse,&quot; he said.&quot;If it&#x27;s a Binay presidency, God forbid, then we&#x27;ll have to respect the mandate that&#x27;s given to him,&quot; he added.WATCH: <a href="http://dzmm.abs-cbnnews.com/news/National/Ikaw_Na_Ba%3A_Panayam_kay_Rodrigo_Duterte_(Ikalawang_Bahagi).html">Duterte on dzMM&#x27;s &#x27;Ikaw na ba&#x27;</a>However, Trillanes said preferring Binay over Duterte doesn&#x27;t mean that he would cease to question the Vice President&#x27;s alleged corruption.&quot;But it doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m going to turn a blind eye on his ways, because I am sure 100 percent that he will not change. If you put a plunderer into the presidency, you don&#x27;t expect the guy to be a saint. Expect him to plunder more.&quot;The senator has been a staunch critic of Binay, leading an inquiry into the corruption allegations against the Binay family for more than a year.READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/08/24/15/trillanes-binay-has-no-balls-be-president/">Trillanes: Binay has &#x27;no balls&#x27; to be president</a>As for a possible presidency under administration bet Mar Roxas, Trillanes said it would likely be similar to the current Aquino administration.&quot;A Roxas presidency I envision to be more of the same as what we have now. So if that&#x27;s okay with you, then vote for the guy,&quot; he said.Trillanes, who has endorsed Senator Grace Poe&#x27;s candidacy, is also unfazed by her disqualification battle.&quot;I believe at some point the Supreme Court will see the light. We&#x27;re in a democracy and the vote of the people is sovereign. They&#x27;re not about to choose who the candidates are,&quot; he said.<div>&#x27;TRILLANES WILL FIGHT FOR YOU&#x27;</div>When it comes to his own bid, Trillanes admitted voter awareness is the biggest challenge as his numbers are lagging behind in recent polls.But Trillanes is optimistic of his &quot;cost-effective ground campaigning&quot; involving mainstream and social media, backed by a more organized Magdalo group, who helped him win in the 2007 and 2013 senatorial elections.&quot;We&#x27;re going to introduce ourselves to the individual voter and I&#x27;m going to sell myself to them, convince them to entrust me that power, position, and responsibility of being vice president,&quot; he said.&quot;The main message is &quot;Si Antonio Trillanes, ipaglalaban ka.&#x27; That basically encapsulates my public service,&quot; he added.Trillanes also said he is getting logistical and financial support from the Nacionalista Party (NP), the home of his fellow vice presidential bets Senators Bongbong Marcos and Alan Cayetano.&quot;I presume since Sen. Bongbong Marcos is a Marcos and Sen. Cayetano has Taguig, then probably they won&#x27;t need as much support as I would,&quot; he said.Running as an independent candidate, Trillanes believes the absence of a running mate would not be an issue once the campaign period starts in February.

MANILA - For Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte becoming president would be a disaster for the Philippines.