- MITCH M. LIPA
Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson is still mum on who to support for president, even with the start of the campaign period for national candidates Feb. 8.
Lacson said that, as earlier agreed with other officials and the mayors of the towns and cities of Negros Occidental, anybody is free to choose his or her candidate for president.
Lacson said he will wait for the announcement of his national party, the Nationalist People’s Coalition, in March regarding the choice for president.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III, who is running for vice president in tandem with Senator Panfilo Lacson of Partido Reporma as president, is the national chairman of the NPC.
The governor said there is an agreement with Vice Governor Jeffrey Ferrer, who already said he supports former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., to respect each other’s choice, adding that this is also the situation for local officials.
Lacson admits that the choice for president of the congressman and mayors of the 1st district will be different from his own.
Ferrer counted Monday the support of Rep. Gerardo Valmayor Jr. and the mayors of the first district to the candidacies of Marcos and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.
Top officials of the first district were seen with the BBM-Sara tandem when the latter visited the province in December to turn over their assistance for the victims of Typhoon Odette in southern Negros. — MML
