page_title: Jejomar Binay 2016 presidential campaign
section_title: Campaign
hierarchical_section_title: Jejomar Binay 2016 presidential campaign / Campaign
caption_attribution_description: English: Vice President Jejomar C. Binay and Cavite governor Jonvic Remulla take their oaths as members of ​the United National Alliance (UNA) and Partido Magdalo during the signing of the unity covenant between the two parties.
context_page_description: The 2016 presidential campaign of Jejomar Binay, former Mayor of Makati and then-incumbent Vice President of the Philippines, was announced on July 1, 2015 during the launch of the United Nationalist Alliance as a political party at the Makati Coliseum.
  Binay had decided to run for president in September 2011, just over a year after assuming the vice presidency.
context_section_description: In May 2014, Binay began his search for a running mate. As his potential running mate Senator Jinggoy Estrada in jail due to his implication in the PDAF scam, Binay's offers were declined by JV Ejercito, Manny Villar (via wife Cynthia Villar), Vilma Santos (via husband Ralph Recto), Mar Roxas, Grace Poe, Rodrigo Duterte and Joseph Estrada. Binay's daughter Abigail, also the Representative from Makati, said that Binay would accept anyone as his running mate except for Antonio Trillanes, and that she prefers Grace Poe. On June 12, Independence Day, speech in Iloilo, President Aquino said that he could only offer Binay the conduct of a clean and honest election, but not an outright endorsement.
  On June 22, Binay resigned from the Aquino cabinet, both as presidential adviser on Overseas Filipino Workers' concerns and as chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, but did not say why. Two days later, Binay addressed the public from his Coconut Palace offices, branding the current administration as "manhid at palpak" (insensitive and bumbling), but did not mention Aquino by name. He also accused the administration of committing sins against him and the people.
  In June 2015 he polled first among expected presidential candidates for the 2016 Philippine general election.
  However, in the September 2015 Pulse Asia he placed third after Senator Grace Poe and Mar Roxas, the ruling Liberal Party presidential candidate.  His trust rating had also dropped 19%.
  According to Inquirer.Net, his numbers have steadily eroded after corruption allegations came out against him in the Philippine Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearings.
  In September 2015, Binay tapped the services of former Secretary of Interior and Local Government Ronaldo Puno as the campaign strategist and adviser for its presidential bid.
  On October 10, 2015, the Federation of Free Workers (FFW), one of the largest labor centers, in the Philippines endorsed him for President
  During the Sinulog Festival in Cebu, Binay was booed by the spectators at the start of the Grand Parade of the festival on January 17, 2016. The Vice President's camp tags the Liberal Party as responsible for the booing incident.
  Binay's presidential campaign started with a proclamation rally held in Welfareville Compound, Mandaluyong City on February 9, 2016.
  On February 16, 2016, Binay's party UNA and One Cebu party (with former GSIS chairman Winston Garcia as the party's gubernatorial bet in 2016 Cebu local elections) form a local coalition in the province of Cebu during the local party's general assembly.
caption: UNA, and Partido Magdalo signing of a coalition agreement. Shown are Binay (left) and Jonvic Remulla (right) who is the incumbent governor of Cavite.
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