Pacquiao mulls running for vice president in 2016 polls

AFP/Getty Images - Eight-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao (L) of Philippines and Mexican boxer Juan Manuel Marquez (R)               offer a joint press conference on September 8, 2011 at Revolution monument in Mexico City, as part of a series of a four-city international media tour with eight-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao from the Philippines. Pacquaio will defend his WBO welterweight title against Marquez in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on November 12, 2011. AFP PHOTO/ALFREDO ESTRELLA (Photo credit should read ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images)

Amid warm welcome during the Mexico leg of the Pacquiao-Marquez world press tour, Filipino boxing icon and Sarangani Rep. Emanuel "Manny" Pacquiao said he is eyeing the vice presidency in the 2016 elections.

Hinting he is going to retire from boxing, Pacquiao said in an interview aired on dzBB: "Come 2016 I am going to run for vice president... no more boxing at that time."

The report also Quoted Pacquiao as saying that before running for the vice presidency he will try first running for governor in Sarangani province in Mindanao. — LBG, GMA News

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