• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Despite the claim of the ruling Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) that it now has the super majority of Negros Island Region officials, Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said on Wednesday (Aug. 28) that the membership of Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) in Negros Occidental remains intact.
Lacson, who is a member of NPC, said that he is not aware of any party member in the province joining the PFP.
On Aug. 26, some 210 new PFP members in Negros Island took their oath before party president, South Cotabato Gov. Reynaldo Tamayo Jr., at L’ Fisher in Bacolod City.
Lacson said that the NPC members present were only invited to attend the mass oath taking rites.
“The objective of the PFP is really to heed the implementation of the Bagong Pilipinas program of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., which other parties coalesced with PFP is also committed to do so,” he added.
Almost all local chief executives in the first and sixth districts of Negros Occidental are NPC members, headed by provincial chairman, former Kabankalan City Mayor Isidro Zayco.
Lacson said that local officials joining the PFP will have no effect on the Love Negros and United Negros Alliance coalition.
“I think more of the bigger problem is that, there were those who took their oaths, coming from opposing sides, of the same local government units. That is now the concern of PFP,” he added.
Tamayo said that the party will do its best to provide solutions to all of those concerns. | GB
