Hmmm, I guess you could look at it two ways. We could see it as we don't have the votes for CIR right now before any lobbying efforts. But he did say "probably not yet" with the key word being "yet." It could also be a political tactic to push people to activism because people would sit back if they knew the votes were in the bag. In the next lines of that article, the President asked Piolin to have his back when the time comes and Piolin offered his support.