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Marcos on PFP, NUP 2025 elections alliance: Unity is our ideology
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Saturday said his party, the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP), and the National Unity Party (NUP) organized an alliance for the 2025 elections, with “unity” as their ideology.
“Well, we cannot deny, there is truth to that. We have to organize [ourselves] for the next election... That's not a marriage of convenience. It is an understanding that we must come together if we are to transform our country into the modern, safe, sustainable, growing country that we dream of, that we have all dreamed of in all our lifetime,” Marcos said during his speech at the PFP and NUP alliance signing ceremony in Makati City.
Marcos added that the alliance between the parties was for public service, and not just winning the elections.
“When you hear that phrase 'marriage of convenience,' then let us answer them: No, unity is in fact our ideology. That is what has brought us together. We do have ideals. This is not just to win the next election. This is to make the Philippines a better place. And that is what we are doing here.”
The President explained that the parties wanted to work together with a common purpose and a consensus on what they wanted to accomplish.
"And that I believe, is what we are seeing here today with the alliances, the coalitions, whatever you want to call them, between the different political parties,” he added.
Meanwhile, NUP president and Camarines Sur 2nd district representative LRay Villafuerte said they were looking at at least six to eight names to endorse for the senatorial race next year.
“For example, NUP, traditionally, wala naman kaming senador. So we can endorse a candidate. With the alliance, we can merge kung sino talaga ang ie-endorse ng administration to push for the Senate slate,” said Villafuerte in a chance interview with reporters.
(For example, in NUP, traditionally, we don’t have senatorial bets. So we can endorse a candidate. With the alliance, we can merge with those endorsed by the administration for the Senate slate.)
Marcos’ PFP had earlier allied with the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC).
The PFP alsoinked a pact with the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats, led by Marcos’ cousin, House Speaker Martin Romualdez.
Marcos ran for president under the PFP in the 2022 national elections. The PFP, however, did not field a Senate slate that year.— Vince Angelo Ferreras/DVM, GMA Integrated News
This article Marcos on PFP, NUP 2025 elections alliance: Unity is our ideology was originally published in GMA News Online.
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