Korina Sanchez

Broadcast journalist Korina Sanchez, wife of Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Mar Roxas, said they will be the first to acknowledge losing at the recent elections if the results are proven clean.

“Of course, as long as...there is no cheating involved,” said she during an informal chat with reporters at the birthday celebrations for her husband.

Speaking on behalf of Roxas, Sanchez assured the electorate that her husband wouldn’t cause trouble or utter a whimper of protest if he loses.

“He’s too humble [to do either],” she insisted.

Sanchez, however, reminds people that the battle is “still on,” and that they are going to keep on fighting “all the way.”

“We will continue counting until the very last vote.”

Sanchez, who decided to take a leave from ABS-CBN to discourage her husband's critics, also declared undying love for her husband and even commended him for continuing to be “decent and steadfast” despite the odds.

“In my heart he is the winner,” she said.

Commenting on the ongoing tallying of votes, where her husband is still playing catch-up to Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) vice presidential candidate Jejomar Binay, Sanchez lay blame on the apparent collapse of support for Loren Legarda—a former colleague from ABS-CBN.

"Nobody thought the [support for the] third candidate [Legarda] would collapse,” she said.

Not surprisingly, she also thought Binay’s current lead is the result of the latter “ingratiating himself with other forces,” seemingly echoing what his husband said later on at a press conference.

According to Roxas, Binay betrayed former President Joseph Estrada, his party’s standard bearer.

“If Mayor Binay cannot be true to his running mate, President Erap, how can he be true to some other running mate?” Roxas said.

When asked about reports that the group of former Tarlac Representative Jose “Peping” Cojuangco Jr., his running mate’s uncle, had pushed for an Aquino-Binay tandem, Roxas said in Filipino: “There is enough time for analysis, for fault-finding, finger-pointing.”

But he also added, “There are no secrets in the Philippines. All of that will come out.”