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Cusi-led PDP-Laban members open nominations for new party officials


PDP-Laban on Friday began the process of electing its new national officers amid infighting within the ruling party.

At the meeting of the national council members in Clark, Pampanga, the group led by party vice chairman Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi opened the nomination process and designated members of the election committee headed by National Police Commission vice chairperson Vitaliano Aguirre II.

The election will take place on Saturday.

“Currently, all national officers and committee chairmen are acting in holdover or appointed capacity. Such a nomination and voting process is what is in accordance with our constitution. Gone are those days [when] only a few members will appoint our national officers,” Cusi said.

The faction of acting party president Senator Manny Pacquiao, who is currently in the United States, did not attend the meeting. He earlier warned attendees of possible sanctions as his faction considered it as an unauthorized assembly.

The party also approved Cusi’s suggestion to create a “council of elders” headed by party chairman President Rodrigo Duterte.

Its initial members include Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado, Rogelio Garcia, the PDP-Laban president, and Senator Aquilino Pimentel III, a supporter of Pacquiao.

Cusi said he hoped that the council would guide PDP-Laban in its journey towards becoming a party that “would really represent and lead the country to progress.”

Duterte will preside over the national assembly organized by Cusi on Saturday.  —NB, GMA News

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