Ejercito added that the United Opposition (UNO) is not having a hard time in filling up its senatorial slate, but in trimming down its candidates.

"We haven’t announced our senatorial line-up yet. I don’t know why we are getting such reaction from people," said Ejercito, son of former President Joseph Estrada.

"It would be better if we announced a complete list of senatorial candidates. It is a tough job for UNO to decide whom to include or not," Ejercito stressed.

Ejercito cited the requirements for candidates to be on thir slate.

"First, they should be anti-administration, particularly anti-Arroyo. Second, they should be ready to support an impeachment in case it would be filed."

He said theUNO will announce its complete senatorial lineup by Jan. 31.

In response to the letter of former Sen, Francisco S. Tatad to former President Estrada, on political dynasties threatening to occupy the Senate, Ejercito said that is really up to the people to decide.

In a statement, Tatad said that "Political dynasties are either appreciated or hated, tolerated or feared. But even in the worst of cases, dynastic family members try simultaneously to occupy as many different offices as possible, or else they alternate or rotate in holding on to a particular office that allows them to exercise power. Never do they sit together in the same office at the same time. This is precisely what the three young men’s (referring to San Juan Mayor Ejercito, Koko Pimentel, and Alan Peter Cayetano) senatorial bid threatens to alter."