The Commision on Elections upheld its decision to recognize the PDP-Laban wing chaired by former President Rodrigo Duterte as the legitimate party over the faction led by Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III.
A faction of the former administration party Partido Demokratiko Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayan elected Thursday Rep. Jose Alvarez as its new president, replacing former Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi who bowed out from the post to “give way for the consolidation of the party.”
Sen. Robinhood Padilla got a plum post in the former administration party Partido Demokratiko Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayan after being appointed as its acting executive vice president.
Leyte 1st District Rep. Martin Romualdez, who is poised to take the House speakership in the 19th Congress, is now assured of the unanimous support of members of President Duterte’s ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan party faction.