NPC, Liberal Party ‘vital partners’

In Philippine politics, math comes handy. This makes the National Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) a vital partner to the administration-led Liberal Party (LP). In a #TalkThursday interview, Markina Rep. and LP spokesman Miro Quimbo debunked reports of cracks between the two. He acknowledged that the Aquino administration would not have carried out controversial measures in Congress — the impeachment against Chief Justice Corona and former Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, sin tax and reproductive health laws — without LP’s “partnership” with the second biggest party in Congress. He noted there are issues when candidates of the two parties vie for the same post in local races, but stressed that NPC’s “commitment to the president and to the coalition is not only for this elections but in fact up until the end of the term of the president.”


View the interview on Rappler.