Politician-beauty explains absence
NZPA-Reuter Manila Aurora Pijuan-Manotoc, a former beauty queen and now aspiring politician who caused alarm when she did not show up at her own nomination rally for the Philippines elections on Monday, explained on Tuesday “it was a lack of communication.” She told a news conference “it was due to miscommunication, misunderstanding ... and because we are only amateurs in my campaign.” Mrs Pijuan-Manotoc, aged 34, whose former husband is married to the elder daughter of the President, Mr Ferdinand Marcos, said that she did not know the rally was to have been her formal proclamation as an Opposition candidate in Manila’s fashionable and
commercial district of Makati in the Parliamentary elections on May 14.
She said that she had thought there was to be a march from a large shopping centre. But when she got to the shopping centre there had been no marchers in sight — “so I got back in my car and went home. The only reason I went there was to march.”
The rally, about Ikm away, was organised by the coalition United Nationalist Democratic Organisation. About 3000 people waited for the star attraction, the winner of the “Miss International” crown in 1970.
Her disappearance caught friends by surprise and alarmed her political allies, who feared that she might have been abducted or persuaded to withdraw.
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