Press Release
November 20, 2009

DANNY LIM ACCEPTS SLOT IN LP SENATE TICKET
'HONORED' TO SHARE LP ASPIRATIONS FOR GOOD GOV'T

Detained Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim formally accepted today the offer of the Liberal Party to join its 12-man senatorial slate for next year's elections, saying the party bannered by Senator Noynoy Aquino and Senator Mar Roxas represents people's aspirations for clean, transparent and honest government.

"Kasama natin si Gen. Lim sa ating laban para sa pagbabago. Sama-sama tayo. Hindi namin kayo pababayaan. Lalaban tayo (General Lim is with us in our fight for reforms. We will do it all together, we will not forsake you, we will fight together to achieve these reforms)," declared Roxas, LP president, said after confirming Lim's acceptance of the LP senatorial slot.

"Pagod na ang taumbayan sa patuloy na pang-aabuso ng kasalukuyang administrasyon. Tulad ni General Lim, kailangan nating lahat ng tapang at tibay na loob upang ituwid ang baluktot, labanan ang tiwali at itama ang mali sa ating bansa (The people are tired of the abuses of this administration. Like General Lim, we need the courage and strength of character to straighten the crooked, fight corruption and correct the ills of our society)," he also said.

Lim's name was already part of the LP senatorial list when the party held a meeting of its National Executive Council and National Directorate meeting last November 16 to formally nominate and choose candidates for President, Vice-President and senator Monday.

The LP ticket will be bannered by LP chairman and former Senate President Franklin Drilon, along with Muntinlupa Rep. Ruffy Biazon, former Bukidnon Rep. Neric Acosta, Bukidnon Rep. Teofisto "TG" Guingona, Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel, former Senator and NEDA Secretary Ralph Recto, and Sonia Roco of Aksyon-Demokratiko.

In a message formally accepting the LP senatorial slot, Lim wrote: "With profound gratitude, great humility and deep awareness of the responsibility, I am extremely honored to have been included in the historic slate of Liberal Party's senatorial candidates."

"I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. The Filipino people deserve better from those to whom they can entrust our nation's highest offices and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it," he added.

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