LP-NP alliance for May polls dims - Malaya 10.20.2006
PROSPECTS of an alliance between the Liberal Party (LP) of Sen. Franklin Drilon and Nacionalista Party (NP) of Senate President Manuel Villar for the 2007 polls have dimmed after LP leaders decided to freeze on-going negotiations.
"The party will have to focus first on consolidating our ranks before we venture into any arrangement with other (political) parties," a senior LP member said.
The source said any talks held between and among members of the LP and NP were done on "purely personal and political bases."
The LP sources said the party’s energy will be channeled instead on "escalating" its reconciliation efforts with members who were drawn to the LP faction of Manila Mayor Lito Atienza.
The sources said a special committee led by Tarlac Rep. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III has been created to reach out to the "prodigal" members.
Aquino confirmed the reconciliation move and said some members of the Atienza faction have indeed been "conciliatory in the past two weeks."
He also said no sanctions would be imposed on Cavite Gov. Ireneo Maliksi for defecting to the Atienza wing. Maliksi was provincial chairman for Cavite before his surprise defection.
The party was split last March after the group of Atienza and presidential chief of staff Mike Defensor staged a rump session and had themselves elected as new party leaders with Atienza as president.
The election of new set of officers by the Atienza group, however, was voided by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) this week. The poll body called for a supervised election on November 13.
The LP sources, however, refused to confirm if talks were indefinitely dropped on the intervention of Sen. Mar Roxas, who is reportedly being groomed by the party to be its standard-bearer in the 2010 presidential election. Villar, who heads the NP, is also said be interested in running for president.
Roxas, LP executive vice-chairman, has apparently expressed reservations on the proposed coalition, which was openly endorsed by Drilon last June.
The senator from Capiz earlier said he has yet to see the platform of NP and see if this jibes with the LP program of government.
Drilon said the proposal was the brain-child of Senate majority leader Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan.
NP stalwart Sen. Ralph Recto also told Senate reporters last June that the possible coalition between his party and the LP was aimed at boosting their senatorial, congressional and local line-ups in 2007.
The NP is likely to field Villar, Recto, Reps. Alan Peter Cayetano and Gilbert Remulla as senatorial bets while the LP will have Pangilinan and Aquino forming the "core senatorial ticket" if the coalition materializes. – Dennis Gadil
"The party will have to focus first on consolidating our ranks before we venture into any arrangement with other (political) parties," a senior LP member said.
The source said any talks held between and among members of the LP and NP were done on "purely personal and political bases."
The LP sources said the party’s energy will be channeled instead on "escalating" its reconciliation efforts with members who were drawn to the LP faction of Manila Mayor Lito Atienza.
The sources said a special committee led by Tarlac Rep. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III has been created to reach out to the "prodigal" members.
Aquino confirmed the reconciliation move and said some members of the Atienza faction have indeed been "conciliatory in the past two weeks."
He also said no sanctions would be imposed on Cavite Gov. Ireneo Maliksi for defecting to the Atienza wing. Maliksi was provincial chairman for Cavite before his surprise defection.
The party was split last March after the group of Atienza and presidential chief of staff Mike Defensor staged a rump session and had themselves elected as new party leaders with Atienza as president.
The election of new set of officers by the Atienza group, however, was voided by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) this week. The poll body called for a supervised election on November 13.
The LP sources, however, refused to confirm if talks were indefinitely dropped on the intervention of Sen. Mar Roxas, who is reportedly being groomed by the party to be its standard-bearer in the 2010 presidential election. Villar, who heads the NP, is also said be interested in running for president.
Roxas, LP executive vice-chairman, has apparently expressed reservations on the proposed coalition, which was openly endorsed by Drilon last June.
The senator from Capiz earlier said he has yet to see the platform of NP and see if this jibes with the LP program of government.
Drilon said the proposal was the brain-child of Senate majority leader Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan.
NP stalwart Sen. Ralph Recto also told Senate reporters last June that the possible coalition between his party and the LP was aimed at boosting their senatorial, congressional and local line-ups in 2007.
The NP is likely to field Villar, Recto, Reps. Alan Peter Cayetano and Gilbert Remulla as senatorial bets while the LP will have Pangilinan and Aquino forming the "core senatorial ticket" if the coalition materializes. – Dennis Gadil
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