Philippines’ Aquino Names Roxas as 2016 Preferred Successor
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President Benigno Aquino, who has overseen an economic resurgence for the Philippines, endorsed Interior Secretary Mar Roxas as his preferred successor.
Roxas is “the person who has shown vigor and integrity, and is ripe and ready to continue the straight path,” Aquino said Friday at announcement event in San Juan. The president cited Roxas’s decision to bar his family from investing in the call center industry that the secretary helped engineer as an example of his character.