Speaker Prospero Nograles, president of Lakas, is no longer as optimistic as before on the planned merger of Lakas and Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi), saying party leaders seem fated to disagree on many issues.
In a television interview two nights ago, Nograles said he was no longer focused on pursuing the merger of the two pro-administration parties.
Nograles said his current concern is to persuade Lakas and Kampi to support common national and local candidates in the general elections in May 2010.
MANILA, Philippines – House Speaker Prospero Nograles is calling all pro-administration parties to field a common standard bearer for 2010 presidential elections, as negotiations to merge Lakas-CMD and Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi) near collapse.
In her report in GMA News’ 24 Oras Thursday, Maki Pulido said the merger of Lakas and Kampi seems impossible to attain before 2010 elections. Instead, Arroyo allies are now working to have a common presidential candidate to make pro-administration coalition parties intact.
MANILA, Philippines – Business tycoon and former ambassador Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco has revealed that the party he founded in 1992, the Nationalist Peoples’ Coalition (NPC), will field either Senator Loren Legarda or her colleague Sen. Francis Escudero as the party’s standard bearer in 2010 presidential elections.
Cojuangco made the announcement during the NPC Christmas party, which was also attended by heads of other political parties such as Speaker Prospero Nograles, president of Lakas-CMD, and Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte, president of Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino or Kampi.
