BACOLOD CITY – The Liberal Party (LP) is consolidating its forces in Bacolod City in preparation for the May 2013 elections, with the entry of eight more members into its fold, including four incumbent city councilors.
Councilors Archie Baribar, Catalino Alisbo, Elmer Sy, and Sonya Verdeflor were sworn in as LP members by Third District Rep. Alfredo Benitez, LP provincial chairman, in rites held at The Bacolod Pavillon Resort Hotel here Friday. Others who took their oath were former councilors Jocelle Batapa- Sigue, Ana Marie Palermo, and Juan Ramon Guanzon, currently chairman of Games and Amusement Board, and broadcaster Marlon Solidum. The oathtaking rites was witnessed by LP Bacolod chairman Frank Carbon, spokesperson Councilor El Cid Familiaran, lawyer Andy Hagad, and other local LP members. Former Vice Mayor Renecito Novero, a member of the Nationalist People's Coalition, was among the guests. The newly-inducted members believe in the LP principles and vision that reject the politics of convenience in favor of the politics of conscience, Benitez said. Carbon said everybody will be included in the list of possible candidates of the LP in Bacolod, including former Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella and Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson, who are expected to clash in the mayoralty race. "Everybody is acceptable at this point," he said. Baribar, who is among the allies of Puentevella in the City Council, said their membership in the LP can strengthen the former congressman's bid for mayor. Verdeflor, for her part, said whoever they will support for mayor and other local candidates will be decided by the party. "It will still be a party decision," she said. Last May in Talisay City, 230 LP members in Negros Occidental, including 36 elected municipal and city officials, and seven party district chairpersons, also took their oath before Transportation and Communications Secretary Mar Roxas, the LP president, in a ceremony witnessed by President Benigno Aquino III.*NLG By Nanette L. Guadalquiver iloilonewstoday
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