• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Despite the claim of the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) that it was able to get the super majority of Negros Island Region officials, after the recent oathtaking of around 210 new members in Bacolod City, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson disclosed on Wednesday that the number of members of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) in Negros Occidental remains intact.
Lacson, a member of NPC, said he is not aware of any NPC member in the province joining the PFP.
He clarified that NPC members were only invited to attend the PFP mass oath taking rites held at a hotel in Bacolod City, stressing also that their political party has an alliance with PFP, the party of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
“The objective of the PFP is really to heed that implementation of the Bagong Pilipinas program of PBBM, which other parties that coalesced with PFP, are also committed to do so,” Lacson said.
Almost all local chief executives in the 1st and 6th districts of Negros Occidental are NPC members, headed by its provincial chairman, former Kabankalan City Mayor Isidro Zayco.
Lacson also said that local officials joining PFP will have no effect on the Love Negros United Negros Alliance coalition.
I think the bigger problem is that there were those who took their oaths that came from opposing sides of the same LGUs. That is now the concern of the PFP, he added.
What’s next, CONA (Certificate Of Nomination and Acceptance). Who will receive it? That will be the concern of the PFP, Lacson further said.
PFP president Reynaldo Tamayo Jr assured on Monday that the party will do its best to provide solutions to all the concerns of the politicians.*
