Militants Dare Ako Bicol to Name Nominees, Mulls Filing Disqualification Case
Legazpi City (25 March) -- As more party list groups are being exposed as fronts of Gloria Macapgal-Arroyo and her allies, the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-Bikol (BAYAN-Bikol) is mulling filing a disqualification case against Ako Bicol for being unfit to represent marginalized Bikolanos.
According to BAYAN-Bikol, Ako Bicol is composed of contractors and close Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo associate and businessman Elizalde Co is their chairman; Co is the biggest contractor in the region.
BAYAN-Bikol also alleged that CO is being linked to the killing of jueteng whistle blower Boy Mayor.
The militants also said that front party list groups were fielded by the Macapagal-Arroyo regime to widen its base in the House of Representatives.
"Up till now Ako Bicol has not revealed its nominees and the deadline is very near. But we have A1 information that their first nominee is Elizalde Co, their second nominee is either incumbent Legazpi City Mayor as well as Gloria ally Noel Rosal or Atty. Roel Batocabe, president of Ako Bicol. We would also like to know who is funding their campaign because they have a lot of air time both in television and radio, big billboards and a lot of vehicles?" asked Tessa Lopez, public information officer of BAYAN-Bikol.
"It is hard to believe that a party list group can have so much money considering that they are supposed to be composed of marginalized people or at least represents them. More likely than not, their funding comes from some bigwigs and from Malacañang itself especially now that Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is running for Congress. Gloria would need a lot of congressmen for her to be the speaker of the House or prime minister in the event that there would be a shift to a parliamentary form of government," added Lopez.
"As early as now Gloria is preparing for that eventuality and what is worse though is that she is misleading Bikolanos that these party list groups will really represent them but in reality are just her dummies. We are now coordinating with our national office in including Ako Bicol in the list of party list groups to be filed with disqualification cases," said Lopez.
"We are not against a party list group representing Bicolanos but we want one that will truly represent the region and not the interests of the powers that be and their cohorts. We want party list groups that will really stand by their principles and fight for the betterment of the sector or region that they represent as well as the whole nation," furthered Lopez.
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