Salvador Laurel

<u style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Salvador Laurel</u><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (The leader of and potential presidential candidate for the UNIDOS [a 12 party alliance, that, along with the PDP-LABAN party which Cory initially ran under, made up the head of opposition against the Marcos administration] during the 1986 elections, a friend and contemporary of Benigno, Cory's husband. At first, when Cory had announced she would answer the peoples' call to her an run for president, Laurel refused prompts from the media and some party officials to yield to her, since they felt she had a better chance of winning than he did. But, after discussions with Cardinal Sin, he accepted Cory's campaign's invitation to run as her vice president, lending even more political legitimacy to the inexperienced Cory as a viable candidate.)</span>