BMW?
MANILA,
JULY 8, 2011 (MANILA STANDARD) PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III
said Tuesday he had finally sold his P4.5-million Porsche, and because it had
been putting his convoy in a "most vulnerable" situation.
"It puts at an unnecessary risk the people I drive with, the PSG
[Presidential Security Group]," he said.
"It has been too exposed. It was like an advertisement that I am inside the
car."
Mr. Aquino said he sold the vehicle for "exactly the same amount" that he had
bought it for, but he didn't say how much that was or who the buyer was.
A Palace source said the Porsche was sold to a friend of Mr. Aquino's, but
did not name him.
The President sold his blue BMW sports car last year to buy the Porsche,
which he said had a mileage of less than 10,000 kilometers. He defended his
decision to buy the Porsche in January, saying he would not settle for video
games to experience the rush of driving a sports car.
"What's wrong with it if I drive a Porsche while I still can?" he said seven
months ago.
"My reflexes might not be the same 10 years from now. I will not be playing
video games just so I could experience that."
But critics slammed his purchase of the car, saying it did not match his call
for austerity. Joyce Pangco Pañares
FROM PHILSTAR
Palace denies P-Noy bought new BMW By Aurea Calica
(The Philippine Star) Updated July 08, 2011 12:00 AMComments (2)
MANILA, Philippines - Malacañang denied yesterday that President Aquino
bought a BMW after selling his Porsche.
"I can categorically tell you that it is not true," presidential spokesman
Edwin Lacierda said, adding he was not aware who bought the President's Porsche
for P4.5 million.
"In the same manner that he bought it privately, he also disposed of it in
private. We know that there are a lot of people saying he should not have bought
it but you know the explanation to that," Lacierda said.
The President, in reaction to earlier criticisms over his acquisition of a
luxury car, said he was able to purchase it at a very low price.
Lacierda said the President sold his Porsche a few weeks ago but decided not
to spread the news about it despite claims his approval ratings went down
because of it.
"We could have announced it early on that the President sold his Porsche but
we did not. Again, the President does not want to earn brownie points," he
said.
COMMENTARY FROM DAILY TRIBUNE
True or false? EDITORIAL Click to enlarge
07/07/2011
Noynoy claims to have sold his German sportscar Porsche because this
has become an "unnecessary" risk.
This piece of information from him, plus his having sold the Porsche, now
third hand, at the same price he claimed to have bought it, was all he would
disclose on his alleged sale of the Porsche, which makes his claimed sale much
too suspicious.
Why, even as he claims to be making a clean breast of his Porsche sale, is he
keeping the identity of his buyer, as well as the identity of the person who had
sold him the car, a mystery, that is, if Noynoy had indeed bought the car, since
the talk making the rounds then was that this was a gift to him by one of his
supporters.
It doesn't make sense either that someone would be buying the Porsche for
exactly the same price, as this car has already been downgraded to being third
hand, going by earlier claims of Noynoy.
So why is Noynoy refusing to bare the important details of the sale, such as
the name of the buyer, the purchase cost, as well as the original owner's
identity, if everything is aboveboard?
For someone who claims to tread the road of transparency, Noynoy certainly is
not being transparent at all, since he expects Filipinos to just accept his word
that he finally sold his Porsche without presenting any proof that he had, just
as he failed to present any proof that the luxury Lexus was merely leased,
through the alleged assistance of an unidentified brother in law.
Last the Filipinos heard of the Lexus was that Noynoy had already cancelled
the lease agreement. Again, nothing to substantiate this.
It is clear, however, that Noynoy is keeping all the important details secret
mainly because there would be no way for media, or anyone else, for that matter,
to check on the claimed sale or even get any details from the Land
Transportation Office, where his kabarilan, Virginia Torres, holds court to
ascertain the veracity of the claimed sale of his Porsche, or if he even bought
it at all.
How are Filipinos to know whether or not Noynoy is again into prevaricating?
He can tell the nation he has sold his Porsche, but who is to know whether
that Porsche is still in his possession, but hidden from view or if he just
handed it to a relative for safekeeping?
Noynoy has been caught lying too many times, the latest of which could be
found in his statements uttered during his first year in the presidency report
to the nation which was full of claimed achievements, but without giving any
specifics. He spoke of so many thousands of kilometers of farm to market roads
his administration had built in just one year, along with the irrigation
projects that he also laid claim to, yet he never stated just where these farm
to market roads were located, and where these farmlands that have been irrigated
through his projects are located, for the media or other groups to verify.
In much the same way, Noynoy, who obviously does not have any direction and
is a nobody home president, also stated in the same forum that his programs of
government can be gleaned from his advocacies during his time as a member of
Congress, which he said he will be continuing as president.
Yet going by his terms as congressman for nine years and three years as
senator, it is evident that he hardly had any legislative measure introduced.
His legislative track record is zero for all those 11 years in Congress.
What advocacies then can he claim to continue, now that he sits in
Malacañang?
But see, when he makes such claims, these are easily checked out for their
falsity or veracity, because the records are there to check on.
Not so in the case of stuff such as his purchase and sale of the luxury car.
One other thing: Noynoy admits that he holds shares in Hacienda Luisita,
inherited from his mother Cory, yet Cory, under her own Charter, was banned from
owning such assets and that if sold, these cannot be sold to a relative up to
the fourth degree of consanguinity.
What this means is that even as she said she had sold her hacienda holdings,
she never did, since her son still has holdings he says he inherited from her.
Much the same way the son says he sold the Porsche?
Chief News Editor: Sol Jose Vanzi
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