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Abby admits she's 'lone wolf' in Binay family; sees reconciliation after polls

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Aleta Nieva Nishimori, ABS-CBN News

<p>MANILA - Incumbent Makati City Mayor Abigail &quot;Abby&quot; Binay on Wednesday said any reconciliation with Junjun Binay, her brother and rival for the mayoralty, will have to wait until after the May elections. </p><p>Binay, who once begged her brother not to run, said so many things have been said in the campaign that any chance of reconciliation would have to wait.</p><p>&quot;We have to finish the elections first before we even talk about reconciliation. Tapusin muna natin. Let&#x27;s finish the elections. Let&#x27;s respect the results of the elections and then start the healing process. You cannot ask for healing now because the war is ongoing,&quot; she told ANC&#x27;s Headstart. </p><p>&quot;It is only after elections that we can rebuild a relationship and all in God&#x27;s time we will be able to do that,&quot; she said.</p><p>Binay described the war with her brother as an emotional rollercoaster especially after her father, former Vice-President Jejomar Binay, decided to back her reelection bid. </p><p>&quot;We are campaigning against each other. My dad is with me and everybody else is on the other side...Having to choose between your kids is very difficult but he was not choosing as a father of our family. I think he was choosing as the father of Makati. Who is a better choice to run the city,&quot; she said. </p><p>She stressed that this election is about Makati City, and not about her, her brother nor their family.</p><p>&quot;I am not doing this to spite them. Hindi ito labanang pamilya. Labanan ito kung sino ba ang magaling maglingkod sa Makati,&quot; she said.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/17/18/binay-vs-binay-in-makati-abby-formalizes-mayoral-showdown-vs-junjun">Binay vs Binay in Makati: Abby formalizes mayoral showdown vs Junjun</a></li></ul><div><strong>&#x27;LONE WOLF&#x27;</strong></div><p>During the interview, Binay revealed the real reason why she was not included in a 2018 Christmas family photo of the Binays. </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BrxmJQ2HYCL/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:16px"><div style="display:flex;flex-direction:row;align-items:center"><div 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style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BrxmJQ2HYCL/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Nancy Binay (@nancybinay)</a> on <time dateTime="2018-12-24T15:22:47+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Dec 24, 2018 at 7:22am PST</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://www.instagram.com/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>She said the photo was actually shot in 2017, not 2018, and that her brother at the time was already making statements that he wanted to run for mayor. </p><p>&quot;2017 nagpaparamdam na siya. I said &#x27;I don&#x27;t want to ruin my holidays.&#x27; There were a lot of holidays that were melodramatic. I want a happy, peaceful Christmas so I decided not to join the pictorial,&quot; she told ANC&#x27;s Headstart. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/25/18/binay-family-poses-for-christmas-photo-sans-abby">Binay family poses for Christmas photo sans Abby</a></li></ul><p>Asked if she is like a lone wolf in the family, she said: &quot;Coz I am.&quot;</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s just been highlighted because of the bickering in politics pero &#x27;yung family issue namin, matagal na,&quot; she said, her voice cracking. </p><p>&quot;I have 3 sisters. I grew up different kasi nag UP Los Banos ako. I decide differently, kaya sinasabi ko nga minsan, I ask: &#x27;Was I switched at birth?&#x27; They like being together all the time, which I don&#x27;t. I am not a groupie, which they don&#x27;t seem to accept. &#x27;Bakit ikaw ganyan?&#x27; &#x27;Bakit hindi ka kagaya namin?&#x27; It&#x27;s difficult to explain to them that I&#x27;m not like you. Yes, we are siblings but we have different personalities.&quot;</p><div><strong>BUDGET SLASH</strong></div><p>One of the things that Binay believes is a form of betrayal was the decision of majority of Makati&#x27;s councilors and heads of barangays to support her brother on the eve of her filing of candidacy, </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/10/18/abby-binay-nilaglag-ng-mga-konsehal-barangay-chairman-ng-makati">Abby Binay ‘nilaglag’ ng mga konsehal, barangay chairman ng Makati</a></li></ul><p> She noted she has been on the receiving end of attacks during the campaign, saying she remains focused on issues and performance.</p><p>&quot;What I do is I debunk. I can say so many things about him as well, but I won’t. Pwede ko rin naman siyang patulan, pero I won’t because may pinagaralan ako, sumusunod ako sa advice ng tatay ko,&quot; she said.</p><p>However, she also accused opposition councilors of politicizing the city&#x27;s 2019 budget.</p><p>&quot;There were certain items that they slashed, ginalaw nila and I feel it&#x27;s very unfair because it takes one year to prepare your budget and it took them what, two weeks?&quot; she said.</p><p>Last March, the Department of Budget (DBM) reenacted the city&#x27;s budget after it was declared inoperative.</p><p>&quot;If you implement an inoperative budget, COA will now come in and files a case against us for implementing an erroneous budget,&quot; the mayor explained. </p><p>The City Council was able to pass the 2019 budget by the end of March, she said.</p><p>&quot;As of today, we now have a budget. Unfortunately, because there&#x27;s an election ban, the salary increase cannot be given to employees until after the election,&quot; she said.</p><p>She also cited other cuts made to the second budget like the summer internship program supposed to provide 8,300 jobs. </p><p>&quot;They slashed it to 1,000,&quot; she lamented.</p><p>&quot;They want to cripple me because they&#x27;re saying I&#x27;m gonna use that for politics. But the thing is, it&#x27;s not for me, para sa mga tao &#x27;yan. If, at the end of the day, hndi nila gusto yung mga programa ko they&#x27;re not gonna vote for me,&quot; she said.</p><div><strong>THE &#x27;BINAY BRAND&#x27;</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KcbDJ5fVfAQ?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Junjun Binay has vowed to bring back the Binay brand of leadership to Makati City if he wins in the election.</p><p>But Abby countered this, saying only their father can claim the &quot;Binay Brand&quot;.</p><p>&quot;My dad is a different politician. Lumaki sa hirap and my brother is not,&quot; she said.</p><p>For her, her version of the Binay Brand would be about transparency and good governance.</p><p>&quot;Maybe the Abby Binay brand will be transparency, good governance, strikta pero may puso. That will be my version of the Binay brand,&quot; she said.</p><p>Unlike her father who was known for being a &quot;KBL&quot; politician or kasal (weddings), binyag (baptisms), libing (wake/funerals) that he has attended, Abby said she has evolved and decided to focus more on kids, on schools, on disaster, health services, and mass transport.</p><p>&quot;We cannot copy our dad because our dad is different. My dad grew up different. Hndi naman siya magiging mayor if the circumstances were different,&quot; she explained.</p>

<p>MANILA - Incumbent Makati City Mayor Abigail "Abby" Binay on Wednesday said any reconciliation with Junjun Binay, her brother and rival for the mayoralty, will have to wait until after the May elections. </p>

MANILA - Incumbent Makati City Mayor Abigail "Abby" Binay on Wednesday said any reconciliation with Junjun Binay, her brother and rival for the mayoralty, will have to wait until after the May elections.

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