PACQUIAO TO RUN FOR VP IN 2016 / COMELEC: PACQUIAO TOO YOUNG TO RUN
MANILA, SEPTEMBER 10, 2011 [PHOTO - (GMANEWS TV) AFP/Getty Images - Eight-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao (L) of Philippines and Mexican boxer Juan Manuel Marquez (R) offer a joint press conference on September 8, 2011 at Revolution monument in …more Mexico City, as part of a series of a four-city international media tour with eight-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao from the Philippines. Pacquaio will defend his WBO welterweight title against Marquez in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on November 12, 2011. ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images)]
Amid warm welcome during the Mexico leg of the Pacquiao-Marquez world press tour, Filipino boxing icon and Sarangani Rep. Emanuel "Manny" Pacquiao said he is eyeing the vice presidency in the 2016 elections.
Hinting he is going to retire from boxing, Pacquiao said in an interview aired on dzBB: "Come 2016 I am going to run for vice president... no more boxing at that time."
The report also Quoted Pacquiao as saying that before running for the vice presidency he will try first running for governor in Sarangani province in Mindanao. — LBG, GMA News
'Pacquiao too young to run for VP' By Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star) Updated September 10, 2011 12:00 AM
MANILA, Philippines - Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao will not realize his dream of becoming vice president in the 2016 polls because of his age, Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes said yesterday.
Brillantes said an aspirant for the vice presidency should be at least 40 years old on the day of the election. Pacquiao will only be 37 in May 2016, having been born on Dec. 17, 1978.
But the Comelec chief noted that if not for his age, Pacquiao is qualified to seek the country's second highest elective post.
Under the Omnibus Election Code, a candidate for vice president should be a "natural-born citizen of the Philippines, a registered voter, able to read and write, at least 40 years of age on the day of election, and a resident of the Philippines for at least 10 years immediately preceding such elections."
Brillantes said that in the 2016 polls, the highest position that the boxing icon could aspire for is senator, as the minimum age requirement for this post is 35.
In the 2013 mid-term election, Pacquiao could seek a gubernatorial position, which requires a minimum age of 23 on election day.
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