President Marcos’ Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) on Thursday officially sealed its alliance with the Nacionalista Party (NP), in what is seen as a decisive move to broaden the grand coalition under the Bagong Pilipinas banner.
During ceremonies sealing the pact, Mr. Marcos said the alliance with the 117-year-old NP would create a synergy between political forces that would be beneficial to the country.
The NP is the latest political force to hop onto the Marcos Administration’s bandwagon.
“To better orchestrate our collective priorities and plans for the nation, the PFP is working closely with our colleagues from the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats, the Nationalist People’s Coalition, [and] the National Unity Party,” the President said.
“And today, we have the opportunity to forge another partnership that will broaden the grand coalition working under the banner of Bagong Pilipinas. We declare the PFP, we declare officially its collaboration with the Nacionalista Party through the signing of our alliance,” he added.
Zeroing in on the shared goal of serving the Filipino people, Mr. Marcos said that forming a strong united front with leaders having the same ideology and convictions would help improve the lives of the Filipinos.
“With this, we form a strong united front that [would] help us fulfill our shared goal for the Filipino people. And I’m sure everyone will agree that our goal is to strengthen the foundation of our nation to better serve our people,” he stated.
“So, I am very, very happy to have — that we are today formalizing that alliance and that alliance now has formed the largest political bloc in the Philippines. And that political bloc… No matter where we come from, we met because we agreed that what the Philippines needs — what we need to do to make the Philippines better, to make the lives of every Filipino better, what we need to do is come together.”
President Marcos enjoined all members of the “largest political bloc” to continue working for the dream and aspiration of making the Philippines a better country.
“And to say that we will — we came into office and when we leave office, that we leave the Philippines a better country and we leave the Filipinos in a better condition than we found them when we first came into office,” the chief executive said.
“That is the aspiration. That is the dream. And it can only be achieved through a unified effort by everyone and there is nothing more than we can do but to continue to work for that dream,” he stated.
It can be recalled that the late President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. ran for and won the 1965 presidential elections under the NP banner.
