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Alvarez adds Albee Benitez, Mocha Uson to PDP slate




Published March 21, 2018, 3:44 PM
By Ben Rosario

In what could be considered as a rare occasion, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez today humbly admitted he erred on the list of senatoriables comprising the dominant Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino slate for 2019 he provided the media.

Alvarez said he unintentionally omitted the names of party stalwart, Negros Occidental Rep. Alfred “Albee” Benitez and Malacañang Asst. Secretary Mocha Uson.

Alvarez said Benitez and Uson are entrenched on the list of prospective senatorial candidates of PDP, the political party of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Last Tuesday, Alvarez spoke before 5,000 new party members in Caloocan City, urging them to support the party’s 2019 senatorial bets. Inadvertently excluded in the announcement were the names of Benitez and Uson.

“Nakalimutan ko lang banggitin si Albee (Benitez), kasama talaga siya sa line-up,” said Alvarez.

In endorsing Benitez’s to the PDP slate, Alvarez stressed that the Negros Occidental solon is needed in the Senate to help guarantee legislative support for the Duterte government’s housing and urban development programs.

However, Benitez has yet to reveal his political intentions for 2019.

New in the list mentioned by Alvarez is Mindoro Oriental Rep. Reynaldo Umali, chairman of the House Committee on Justice that recently voted to impeach Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.

Among the names already included in the PDP list were those of Reps. Zajid Mangudadatu (Maguindanao); Geraldine Roman (Bataan) and Karlo Nograles (Davao City); presidential spokesman Harry Roque, Secretary Christopher Go, presidential political adviser Francis Tolentino and Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III.

“They have to manifest their intention (to run) and rate well in surveys,”Alvarez said

“They have to support federalism because that is the advocacy of the party, as well as rank well in surveys. If they do not rate well, then that (Senate run) will be a political suicide. The performance in surveys is important because we want our candidates to win,” he added.

Source: 
Manila Bulletin

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