Meet with the president

CONNECT. A city mayor is now using his connections with mining operators to get through to President-elect Rody Duterte's circle. While this mayor is so loyal to Liberal Party's Mar Roxas and, in fact he reiterated in separate interviews with two big TV networks that he did not support Duterte in the May 9 elections, he met the next MalacaÒang occupant with the help of the businessman who is into mining.

COALITION. "Did they talk about business? Or did they talk about politics?" another pundit asked. But the fact that he is the city mayor, he should train his way to MalacaÒang or to Davao City, whatever it takes, even to the extent of driving his local party into the administration coalition, this pundit said.