Sotto expecting NPC members to support Lacson's presidential bid in Eleksyon 2022

Senate President and Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) chairman Vicente Sotto III on Thursday said a dialogue would still be held to determine the presidential candidate whom the party will support in the 2022 national elections.

Sotto was asked if the NPC, as a party, has already decided on who will be its presidential candidate for the May 2022 polls.

"We will meet with Sen. (Panfilo) Lacson for a dialogue. He is my endorsed candidate to our party. I expect many of my partymates will support him," Sotto told GMA News Online.

Asked if the party is also conducting dialogues with other presidential candidates, Sotto responded: "I have none. I don’t know about the others."

The tandem of Lacson and Sotto is set to endorse the following senatorial candidates:

•     Antique Rep. Loren Legarda
•     former senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito
•     Sorsogon Governor Francis “Chiz” Escudero
•     former Quezon City mayor Herbert Bautista
•     Senator Sherwin Gatchalian

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•     Senator Joel Villanueva
•     Senator Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri
•     former Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay
•     former Agriculture secretary Manny Piñol
•     Dr. Minguita Padilla
•     former Makati Rep. Monsour del Rosario
•     Powee Capino
•     Senator Richard “Dick” Gordon
•     Information and Communications Secretary Greg Honasan

—AOL, GMA News