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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/171687913533220220810-makati-brigada-eskwela-gc-10.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Makati City Mayor Abby Binay speaks to the audience during the Brigada Eskwela Kickoff inside the Comembo Elementary School on August 10, 2022. <em>George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Makati Mayor Abby Binay has joined the Nationalist People’s Coalition, signaling a potential run for the Senate in 2025.</p><p>According to a press release, Binay’s husband Makati 2nd District Rep. Luis Campos Jr administered her oath-taking as a party member at the NPC Clubhouse in Quezon City.</p><p>“The party is eyeing Mayor Abby as one of its candidates in the 2025 senatorial elections,” the press release reads.</p><p>Former Senate President Vicente Sotto III, party chairman, said last week that <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/18/npc-eyes-abby-binay-lapid-sotto-as-senatorial-bets-in-2025-elections-2238">he, Binay and Sen. Lito Lapid </a>are among NPC&#x27;s potential candidates. </p><p>Binay said she is grateful to the party for considering her for its Senate slate, but said she “will continue to fulfill my pledge to my beloved Makatizens to continue making our services better and promoting our city as a major tourist and investor destination” for now.</p><p>Binay in January also floated the <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/18/24/abby-binay-on-possible-taguig-mayoral-run-i-will-decide-by-march">possibility of running for mayor of Taguig City</a>, with which the Makati government has had issues over the transfer of jurisdiction of &quot;Embo&quot; barangays that were previously part of Makati.   </p><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/chVK41SOWqU?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" width="640"></iframe></div><p>Binay ran in 2022 under the Makatizens United Party, an affiliate of the United Nationalist Alliance founded by her father, former Vice President Jejomar Binay.</p><p>NPC this month <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/18/nationalist-people-s-coalition-to-enter-alliance-with-marcos-pfp-929">entered into an alliance</a> with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, which is also allied with the ruling Lakas-CMD party led by House Speaker Martin Romualdez.</p><p>The new alliance, called Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas, seeks to continue the message of political unity that brought the UniTeam alliance of the country&#x27;s biggest political parties and clans to victory in 2022.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/11/lp-may-have-points-of-unity-with-new-admin-alliance-analyst-1022">READ: LP may have points of unity with new admin alliance — analyst</a></div><p>“The issues facing our country should be seen as a  chance to work together and find common purpose rather than opportunities to sow division,” Mayor Binay said in an appeal to the country’s political parties.</p><p>Sen. Nancy Binay, the mayor’s sister, has served two terms at the Senate and has said she is considering a run for Makati City Hall, potentially against Rep. Campos.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/27/escudero-zubiri-allies-not-my-enemies-1735">RELATED: </a><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/27/escudero-zubiri-allies-not-my-enemies-1735">Zubiri, allies not my enemies — Escudero</a></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XYNDFMFaYrw?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" width="640"></iframe></div>

<p>Former Senate President Vicente Sotto III, NPC chairman, said last week that he, Binay and Sen. Lito Lapid are among the party's potential candidate for the Senate.</p>

Former Senate President Vicente Sotto III, NPC chairman, said last week that he, Binay and Sen. Lito Lapid are among the party's potential candidate for the Senate.

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Makati's Abby Binay joins Nationalist People's Coalition

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Published May 28, 2024 02:52 PM PHT

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