Panlilio joins LP as he vows to help push Noynoy’s candidacy
Posted on November 9th, 2009
On Thursday, Pampanga Governor Eddie Panlilio will be officially sworn as a Liberal Party (LP) member. The party is making preparations for the preparations of Among Ed, said LP director general Chito Gascon.
Among Ed is joining the LP as he helps push the candidacies of Senators Benigno Aquino III and Manuel Roxas II as president and vice president, respectively, in the 2010 elections. Panlilio withdrew his plan to run for president and opted to support Aquino’s bid. His LP membership however, Panlilio said, does not mean that he is seeking reelection as governor of Pampanga.
He said, as LP coordinator in Pampanga, he would be organizing the slate in the home province of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that is dominated by the administration’s Lakas-Kampi-CMD. “We will strengthen the LP and the candidacies of Noynoy and Mar by bringing good and ethical leaders to the party. The LP will also help us, Kapampangans, sustain the crusade for good governance,” said Panlilio.
Meanwhile, Pampanga Vice Governor Joseller “Yeng” Guiao, who has also expressed support the candidacy of Noynoy as president, denied allegations that he have applied to the LP nor courted the support of the party for his bid as governor. “My support for Noynoy is not preconditioned by anything. The party is secondary. The closeness of our families is, to me, most important,” Guiao said.
Yeng’s father, former governor Bren Guiao, was an ally of the late President Corazon Aquino, the senator’s mother who died last August 1. Guiao said, in reference to Panlilio’s membership in the LP, “I don’t think it’s going to change anything in terms of my personal decision and plan.”
The vice governor’s statement was confirmed by Gascon who said that Guiao has not given a hint or statement that he wanted to move to the LP.
