Pimentel faction ousts Duterte as PDP-Laban chairman

SENATOR Aquilino “Koko”Pimentel III has replaced President Rodrigo Duterte as chairman of the Partido Demokatriko Pilipino Lakas ng Bayan (PDPLaban) national council in a meeting held Sunday afternoon, August 29, 2021.

In a statement read over the radio, PDPLaban executive director Ron Munsayac said the “original PDP-Laban” convened at 2 p.m. Sunday, with Pimentel, national committee chairmen, national and regional officers, and Senator Emmanuel Pacquiao, who was on his way home from a boxing bout

States.

“The PDP-Laban national council elected Sen. Koko Pimentel as its chairman and former governor Lutgardo Barbo as vice chairman,” he sai d.

A few days earlier on August 25, Pimentel said the dispute within the

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ruling party is internal.

“Our internal dispute has been caused by someone from the inside. That an outsider is being considered as the presidential candidate by an insider is not the fault of the person being mentioned but the fault of the insider who lacks faith, confidence, and loyalty to his Party and the talent and skills of the party members,” he said.

The faction led by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi is expected to nominate Senator Christopher Go, Duterte’s former aide, as the party’s standard bearer during the May 2022 el ect i on s.

The Cusi faction earlier said Duterte has agreed to run as vice president under PDPLaban.

The Pimentel faction, meanwhile, has said that it will nominate Pacquiao as presidential bet .

Villanueva said such pay rates should now change, the same way that the virus has mutated.

As to how much the increase will be, Villanueva said “the Senate, for sure, will collectively propose it once the supporting data are made available during the hearings for the 2022 national budget.”

He said a 100-percent increase in the SRA and the hazard pay can be the starting point of the discussion.