Liberal Party List of Senators for the 2013 Mid-Term Elections

Liberal Party Senatoriables 2013 Elections

The Liberal Party headed by Secretary Mar Roxas and the party of President Noynoy Aquino already announced the tentative list of Senatoriables for the 2013 Midterm elections. Budget Secretary Florencio Abad Jr. told dzmm during an interview that they already have the 12 candidates for senators in the 2013 elections.


However, the list include some members of other political parties including those from the camp of VP Jejomar Binay (PDP-laban) and the Nacionalista Party. But the list is a strong contender against the line-up of the UNA Coalition.

Below are the names of the candidates that will be endorsed by the Liberal Party. Some of them lost in the last Senatorial elections.

Here's the updated list of Senatoriables for the 2013 Elections both for LP and UNA:
 LP Coalition and UNA Senatorial Candidates

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1. former Akbayan party-list Rep. Risa Hontiveros

2. former Representative and Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon

3. Customs Deputy Commissioner General Danny Lim

4. former Rep. and Presidential Adviser on Environmental Concerns Neric Acosta

5. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima

6. TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva

7. House Deputy Speaker Erin Tañada

8. Representative Sonny Angara

9. Senator Antonio Trillanes

10. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano

11. Senator Aquilino "koko" Pimentel

12. Senator Chiz Escudero


Other possible candidates include Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda and Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala. This list may still change depending on the developments on the possible coalition with other parties. The administration party is hoping that that they get the support of other major parties for the upcoming midterm elections. A coalition between PDP-Laban, Nacionalista and other minor political parties are still possible.

 UPDATE:

The administration ticket will be composed of Liberal, Nationalist People's Coalition, Nacionalista Party, and Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino.

Erap-Binay Puts New Coalition for 2013 Election, United Nationalist Alliance

United Nationalists Alliance (UNA Coalition)

Here's the updated list of Senatoriables for the 2013 Elections both for LP and UNA:
 LP Coalition and UNA Senatorial Candidates

Senator Koko Pimentel confirmed to the media that the two established political parties in the Philippines decided to unite for the 2013 Senatorial Elections. The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) signed an agreement with the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP). PDP-Laban is headed by Vice-President Jejomar Binay while PMP is the party of former President Joseph Estrada.


Political analysts says that the coalition is not a threat to the Liberal Party headed by President Noynoy Aquino. Sources said that PDP-Laban had already made some talks with the Liberal Party but it would be difficult to get the support of all its members. They decided to look for other parties willing to create a coalition for the 2013 Senatorial elections.

The coalition between PDP-Laban and PMP is not surprising since the two parties already helped each other in previous elections. They fought the previous administration by putting United Opposition or UNO. According to Senator Pimentel, the new coalition will be called United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).

The party's nominees for the 2013 National Senatorial elections is already complete and in fact, more than 12 Senatoriables are already willing to run under their banner. "The coalition ticket, under the Binay umbrella, is already overflowing, meaning it has more than 12 names on the list. That means the Vice President has to choose and trim the list down," said Sen Pimentel.

Some of the candidates for 2013 are Joey de Venecia III, Cagayan Rep. Juan Ponce Enrile Jr., re-electionist senators Francis Escudero, Loren Legarda, Gregorio Honasan, Koko Pimentel, and Alan Peter Cayetano. The nominees from the PMP has yet to be named.

Meanwhile, VP Binay is open to the possibility of accepting former Senator Miguel Zubiri in the coalition. But this is opposed by Koko Pimentel. Former Senator Zubiri resigned from the Senate after he lost from the recount and the alleged election anomalies in Mindanao benefited him.

We will update this post when the new list of Senators for 2013 is announced by the United Nationalists Alliance.


UPDATE:
UNA Spokesman JV Bautista confirmed, 3 more candidates from PMP. They are:
1. former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri
2. congresswoman Mitos Magsaysay
3.Cebu governor Gwendolyn Garcia

Merging of Lakas Kampi CMD Final

The merging of LAKAS KAMPI CMD becomes final with the recent meeting of the party representatives. They agreed that they will be fielding only one candidate for top position in the coming 2010 national elections. For me, this is a good development since we will be having smaller number of candidates to choose from. although we still dont know how many candidates the opposition has.

The possible tandem for the 2010 presidential election for the LAKAS KAMPI CMD coalition is VP Noli de Castro and Secretary Puno or VP Noli de Castro and Defense Secretary Teodoro.

Merging of Lakas and Kampi: Far from Reality

The efforts of some Kampi official to merge with Lakas is far from reality. Although they have agreed on some issues but again when it comes to political agenda, they have different objectives. Another issue raised by Lakas officials is to make them the dominant party in the merging and Kampi will just be part of the minority.

One obvious reason why Lakas is not letting go of Kampi as an ally is the resource and machinery they can provide. Although Kampi officials are trying to get more support from other Lakas members specially in the local politics. Shifting of political affiliations will not be surprising specially if there will be some promises given as what was made before. In the philippine politics, our politicians will only shift allegiance if they can get something in return. If Kampi will give what they want, maybe they will get the majority in the coalition. Again this would mean a lot of money.

Another problem with the merging is in the local level where there are aspiring candidates for both party. It already happened last election where both Kampi and Lakas have their own candidates in the local level which caused some problems in the coalition. although they were able to surpass this issues but this coming election in 2010, it is expected that more cases will be occurring. This will test how strong the coalition is.

As of this moment, no one can tell if the merging will take place, would it be sooner? or it will just be a dream of Kampi.