Concepcion, Tarlac - Sonia Roco, the widow of former Senator and DepEd Secretary Raul Roco and LP senatorial candidate, has renewed her commitment to continue the legacy of her husband. She made this announcement as she embarked on the first day of the campaign together with Liberal Party standard-bearer Noynoy Aquino, VP candidate Mar Roxas and the rest of the LP Senate slate.
“Raul Roco’s last message to every Filipino is to ‘spread the seeds’. The seeds have been sown. We hope that these seeds continue to be nurtured and will now bear meaningful, positive fruits for our famished nation.” Sonia Roco, also called Inang Guro, addressed the crowd in Tarlac, the hometown of Aquinos.
She added that she will continue the legacy left by her husband as a champion of education and reform. “Ang kapakanan ng mga mag-aaral at mga guro ang pangunahing plataporma ni Raul sa huli nyang katungkulan. Ipagpapatuloy natin ang adhikaing maging mulat ang lahat, nagbabasa’t nagsusulat.” (Upholding the welfare of students and teachers has been the foremost platform of Raul in his last stint as a public servant. We will pursue the goal of a conscious and enlightened citizenry. A nation that reads. A nation that writes.)
“I embark on this campaign on the same platform of hope. I will fight for and continue to stand for honest governance, education for all and equal opportunities for everyone, the same ideals which Raul had fought for when he was still alive.” she added.
She ended by re-affirming her belief in the goodness of the Filipino. “This 2010, the Filipino will finally elect a decent leader in the person of Noynoy Aquino. We missed our chances in past elections, we cannot afford to choose a deceitful candidate too desperate to buy his way into the presidency.”
Sonia Roco is the Chairperson of Aksyon Demokratiko, the political party founded by her late husband.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
ROCO TO VILLAR: DISCLOSE TALENT FEES OF PAID CELEBRITIES AND TV SHOWS
Metro Manila – Sonia Roco, the wife of former Senator and DepEd Secretary Raul Roco and LP senatorial candidate, has called on presidential candidate Manny Villar to fully disclose the talent fees he is paying the celebrities endorsing him. This call came at the heels of a report that Villar is the top 14th ad spender at P543M in the last quarter of 2009, beating several other known consumer brands including biscuits and shampoos.
Roco quipped “Katakut-takot na pera ang sinusunog niya upang mapa-air ang kanyang mga ads. Magkano ba talaga ang kanyang binabayad sa mga mamahaling talents na ito? Kung meron, please divulge and be transparent.” (He is spending indecent amounts of money to air his ads. How much is he paying for these expensive talents? If true, he should divulge this and be transparent.)
“May pa-gimmick pa siya sa isang noontime TV show at confirmed na si Sarah Geronimo naman ang susunod niyang bayad na endorser. Habang naiintindihan namin na kailangan lang maghanapbuhay ng mga artista at kumita ang mga tv shows na ito, marapat lamang na ibunyag kung magkano ba ang kanyang ginagastos upang ito’y masuri ng COMELEC at ng BIR.” she added. (He has these gimmicks in noontime shows and now has Sarah Geronimo as another paid endorser. While we understand that these talents and shows are just trying to make a living, it is proper to have these fees fully disclosed so it can be looked into by both COMELEC and BIR)
Manny Villar is openly endorsed by Willie Revillame, Michael V., Dolphy and now Sarah Geronimo. He is also sponsoring a segment in Eat Bulaga, a noontime TV show which gives away a cash prize of P25,000 daily.
Roco stressed that while full disclosure and reports on campaign spending are expected only after the elections, it would be good to pursue having these regularly reported before and during the campaign period. She added that there are several deficient areas in our electoral laws including the rules on campaigning and pre-campaigning. “Overspending during the official campaign period is illegal. Overspending before it is both immoral and unethical.” she ended.
Sonia Roco for Senator Movement Headquarters
2nd and 3rd Floors, 329 F, Katipunan Road, Brgy. Loyola Heights, Quezon City (Beside Bo’s Coffee)
Tel No. (63) 2 986-4466 Email Address: aksyonkabataan@gmail.com
Secretariat (Lian Halili): 0917-5160728 Liaison (Bobbit Roco): 0917-8191432
For interviews with Sonia Roco, contact: 0918-9059999
Press Release
February 8, 2010
ROCO KAY VILLAR: MAGKANO BINABAYAD MO SA MGA ENDORSERS?
Metro Manila – Sonia Roco, ang asawa ng dating Senador at Kalihim ng DepEd na si Raul Roco at ngayo’y candidate sa pagka-senador, ay nanawagan kay presidential candidate Manny Villar na ibunyag kung magkano ang kanyang binabayad sa mga artistang nag-eendorso sa kanya. Ang panawagang ito ay kasunod ng mga ulat na lumabas na pang 14th na pinakamalaking ad spender si Manny Villar at umaabot na sa P543M ang kanyang ginastos noong huling quarter ng 2009 – higit na mas malaki pa kaysa ginastos ng mga companya ng beer, biscuits at shampoos.
Ani Roco “Katakut-takot na pera ang sinusunog niya upang mapa-air ang kanyang mga ads. Magkano ba talaga ang kanyang binabayad sa mga mamahaling talents na ito? Kung meron, please divulge and be transparent.”
“May pa-gimmick pa siya sa isang noontime TV show at confirmed na si Sarah Geronimo naman ang susunod niyang bayad na endorser. Habang naiintindihan namin na kailangan lang maghanapbuhay ng mga artista at kumita ang mga tv shows na ito, marapat lamang na ibunyag kung magkano ba ang kanyang ginagastos upang ito’y masuri ng COMELEC at ng BIR.” pandagdag ni Roco.
Si Manny Villar ay bukas na iniendorso nina Willie Revillame, Michael V., Dolphy at ngayon Sarah Geronimo. Siya ay nagsposponsor din ng isang segment sa Eat Bulaga, isang noontime TV show at namimigay diumano ng cash prize na P25,000 bawat araw.
Sinabi ni Roco na habang ang pagrireport sa mga ginagastos ng isang kandidato ay isusumite lamang pagkatapos ng halalan, mas mainam na malaman ng publiko bago at sa kalagitnaan ng kampanya kung magkano na ang nagagastos ng isang kandidato. Dinagdag ni Roco na marami ngang mga repormang kailangang ihabla para mabago ang ating sistema ng pangangampanya. “Overspending sa panahon ng official campaign period ay illegal. Overspending bago nito ay imoral at unethical.” panghuling dagdag ni Roco.
Roco quipped “Katakut-takot na pera ang sinusunog niya upang mapa-air ang kanyang mga ads. Magkano ba talaga ang kanyang binabayad sa mga mamahaling talents na ito? Kung meron, please divulge and be transparent.” (He is spending indecent amounts of money to air his ads. How much is he paying for these expensive talents? If true, he should divulge this and be transparent.)
“May pa-gimmick pa siya sa isang noontime TV show at confirmed na si Sarah Geronimo naman ang susunod niyang bayad na endorser. Habang naiintindihan namin na kailangan lang maghanapbuhay ng mga artista at kumita ang mga tv shows na ito, marapat lamang na ibunyag kung magkano ba ang kanyang ginagastos upang ito’y masuri ng COMELEC at ng BIR.” she added. (He has these gimmicks in noontime shows and now has Sarah Geronimo as another paid endorser. While we understand that these talents and shows are just trying to make a living, it is proper to have these fees fully disclosed so it can be looked into by both COMELEC and BIR)
Manny Villar is openly endorsed by Willie Revillame, Michael V., Dolphy and now Sarah Geronimo. He is also sponsoring a segment in Eat Bulaga, a noontime TV show which gives away a cash prize of P25,000 daily.
Roco stressed that while full disclosure and reports on campaign spending are expected only after the elections, it would be good to pursue having these regularly reported before and during the campaign period. She added that there are several deficient areas in our electoral laws including the rules on campaigning and pre-campaigning. “Overspending during the official campaign period is illegal. Overspending before it is both immoral and unethical.” she ended.
Sonia Roco for Senator Movement Headquarters
2nd and 3rd Floors, 329 F, Katipunan Road, Brgy. Loyola Heights, Quezon City (Beside Bo’s Coffee)
Tel No. (63) 2 986-4466 Email Address: aksyonkabataan@gmail.com
Secretariat (Lian Halili): 0917-5160728 Liaison (Bobbit Roco): 0917-8191432
For interviews with Sonia Roco, contact: 0918-9059999
Press Release
February 8, 2010
ROCO KAY VILLAR: MAGKANO BINABAYAD MO SA MGA ENDORSERS?
Metro Manila – Sonia Roco, ang asawa ng dating Senador at Kalihim ng DepEd na si Raul Roco at ngayo’y candidate sa pagka-senador, ay nanawagan kay presidential candidate Manny Villar na ibunyag kung magkano ang kanyang binabayad sa mga artistang nag-eendorso sa kanya. Ang panawagang ito ay kasunod ng mga ulat na lumabas na pang 14th na pinakamalaking ad spender si Manny Villar at umaabot na sa P543M ang kanyang ginastos noong huling quarter ng 2009 – higit na mas malaki pa kaysa ginastos ng mga companya ng beer, biscuits at shampoos.
Ani Roco “Katakut-takot na pera ang sinusunog niya upang mapa-air ang kanyang mga ads. Magkano ba talaga ang kanyang binabayad sa mga mamahaling talents na ito? Kung meron, please divulge and be transparent.”
“May pa-gimmick pa siya sa isang noontime TV show at confirmed na si Sarah Geronimo naman ang susunod niyang bayad na endorser. Habang naiintindihan namin na kailangan lang maghanapbuhay ng mga artista at kumita ang mga tv shows na ito, marapat lamang na ibunyag kung magkano ba ang kanyang ginagastos upang ito’y masuri ng COMELEC at ng BIR.” pandagdag ni Roco.
Si Manny Villar ay bukas na iniendorso nina Willie Revillame, Michael V., Dolphy at ngayon Sarah Geronimo. Siya ay nagsposponsor din ng isang segment sa Eat Bulaga, isang noontime TV show at namimigay diumano ng cash prize na P25,000 bawat araw.
Sinabi ni Roco na habang ang pagrireport sa mga ginagastos ng isang kandidato ay isusumite lamang pagkatapos ng halalan, mas mainam na malaman ng publiko bago at sa kalagitnaan ng kampanya kung magkano na ang nagagastos ng isang kandidato. Dinagdag ni Roco na marami ngang mga repormang kailangang ihabla para mabago ang ating sistema ng pangangampanya. “Overspending sa panahon ng official campaign period ay illegal. Overspending bago nito ay imoral at unethical.” panghuling dagdag ni Roco.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Roco to GMA: Unlike Cory, you cheapened EDSA
“GMA will go down in history as the beneficiary who betrayed the spirit of EDSA – ang traydor ng EDSA!” Sonia Roco, a Liberal Party-Aksyon Demokratiko senatorial candidate and widow of the late Senator and DepEd Secretary Raul Roco, minced fighting words when she spoke against the iniquities of the current administration on the eve of EDSA Dos anniversary.
“She leaves a legacy of a hungry and mis-educated electorate cynical and sceptical of their leaders. The spirit of EDSA is one that pursues the ideals of truth, justice, democracy and unity – all of which she has consciously stifled in her term. And for this, her term will go down as an insult and mockery to the ideals of the thousands of youth and masses who trooped to EDSA and lodged her into power.”
“Because of GMA, several people find little reason to celebrate EDSA Dos. But I beseech the people, especially the youth, to continue to live by the ideals of EDSA Dos even if its foremost beneficiary has not done so.”
Asked further if she had a personal message to the president who ran and won against her husband in the 2004 presidential elections, the educator who dubs herself Inang Guro shared these strong words:
“You have spent millions in lavish dinners abroad and have acquired more personal properties in your reign. Paano ka ba noon, bakit sobrang mas mayaman ka na ngayon?
A recent SWS survey revealed a despicable state of our people when we reached the 24 percent threshold of people who find themselves hungry under your term. Ganito tayo noon, bakit mas gutom na tayo ngayon?
You have become so inebriated with power that you cling to it at all cost, short of selling your soul to the devil. That is why, after the May elections, Pangulo ka noon, bakit Congresswoman ka na naman ngayon?”
“The last public pronouncements of my husband, the late Senator Roco, was a clamor for you to resign. Even if we reach the last day of your term this June, I will continue the same battlecry: GMA Resign! This is the right thing to do. And no amount of advertisements and bogus statistics will ever convince your people that they are better off because of your term.”
“She leaves a legacy of a hungry and mis-educated electorate cynical and sceptical of their leaders. The spirit of EDSA is one that pursues the ideals of truth, justice, democracy and unity – all of which she has consciously stifled in her term. And for this, her term will go down as an insult and mockery to the ideals of the thousands of youth and masses who trooped to EDSA and lodged her into power.”
“Because of GMA, several people find little reason to celebrate EDSA Dos. But I beseech the people, especially the youth, to continue to live by the ideals of EDSA Dos even if its foremost beneficiary has not done so.”
Asked further if she had a personal message to the president who ran and won against her husband in the 2004 presidential elections, the educator who dubs herself Inang Guro shared these strong words:
“You have spent millions in lavish dinners abroad and have acquired more personal properties in your reign. Paano ka ba noon, bakit sobrang mas mayaman ka na ngayon?
A recent SWS survey revealed a despicable state of our people when we reached the 24 percent threshold of people who find themselves hungry under your term. Ganito tayo noon, bakit mas gutom na tayo ngayon?
You have become so inebriated with power that you cling to it at all cost, short of selling your soul to the devil. That is why, after the May elections, Pangulo ka noon, bakit Congresswoman ka na naman ngayon?”
“The last public pronouncements of my husband, the late Senator Roco, was a clamor for you to resign. Even if we reach the last day of your term this June, I will continue the same battlecry: GMA Resign! This is the right thing to do. And no amount of advertisements and bogus statistics will ever convince your people that they are better off because of your term.”
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Theres The Rub: The writing in the wind
By Conrado de Quiros
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:19:00 01/19/2010
The one who’s bound to have absolute sympathy, and empathy for the victims of the Haiti earthquake is Sonia Roco, an LP senatorial candidate. She knows what it means to be pinned underneath the rubble for more than 24 hours, hoping against hope to be rescued but fearing the worst. She knows the experience of living death.
Sonia was one of those who went through the ordeal of being buried alive when the Hotel Nevada in Baguio was struck down by a killer earthquake in July 1990. She was there for an NGO conference sponsored by USAID when the room swayed violently and everything went black. It was sudden, Sonia recalled. One moment they were lining up before a buffet table for merienda bantering about, the next it was pitch dark. She didn’t have time to go for her handbag, which was her reflex action before the lights went out.
I leave Sonia to tell her story in detail. I do hope she does in her sorties. It is a gripping, and inspiring, story of death and resurrection. Suffice it to say here that it was traumatizing, made all the more so by her bilas, Peachie, the wife of Raul Roco’s brother Cho, dying there along with many others. Peachie was hunched over a table and her feet pressed tightly over something. That was how she described it to Sonia soon after the building caved in. She was in great pain, which she bore for 12 hours before giving in. Her last words were: “Son, I can’t take it anymore. My legs are numb. I’m so tired.”
I can only hope Sonia recollects that milestone in her life this July as a senator. She herself says the experience gave her a resolve to give back to the world for the life she got for herself that day, or night, or womb-tomb of time. I believe her. Experiences like that have been known to make people kinder.
But even without experiencing that, your mind must reel from the spectacle of torment left behind by the earthquake that struck Haiti. The buildings torn down like they were made of matchsticks, the mountain of litter and the stench of the dead, the keening and howling and rioting rending the air and earth of that land. As if that country wasn’t already ground down by mind-boggling poverty. That is the face of hell on earth.
Your heart goes out to the people, but your mind also seethes at the recollection of the failed Copenhagen Summit, a meeting gathered to save the planet but which produced nothing of consequence. Certainly nothing that binds the countries, the United States and China, in particular, the two biggest polluters of the earth, to meeting definite targets. The summit of course could have done nothing to prevent the mother of all tremors from flattening Haiti, but it could have prevented more cataclysms of this sort from happening over the next several years. Or lessened the extent of their ferocity.
Does anybody really need any more terrifying proof of a dying planet? Of course more violent earthquakes have shaken the earth in the past. We ourselves have had a couple of them in the last half of the 20th century, the one in 1968, which turned the Ruby Towers into dust, and the one in 1990, which turned a great deal of Baguio into the same state. But at no time have they happened with numbing frequency and severity, alongside other epic disasters, some of them coming completely unexpectedly. It is no small irony that the countries that have resisted efforts at reducing carbon emissions, the United States and China, have themselves been hit by violent cataclysms. Sichuan was hit by an exceptionally murderous earthquake in 2008.
Shortly before the Haiti earthquake, a blizzard blanketed parts of the US east coast in snow and fog, causing a whiteout (visibility zero) in many places. Before that, there was a whole train of natural disasters, from hurricane to superstorms howling across the Pacific to floodwaters inundating, of all places, Jeddah in November last year (worst flooding in a decade, the product of twice the amount of rainfall in a year). Some years in the more distant past have seen more violent cataclysms, but nothing like the cumulative, sustained and accelerating incidences of cataclysms happening today.
The real worry is not that we might suffer the same fate as Haiti, or be hit again by an earthquake the size of 1968 and 1990. The real worry is that we might be hit by other types of disasters we never thought could hit us. Not unlike “Ondoy” which came out of nowhere and wrought the devastation it did. Floods we can alleviate by clearing esteros (creeks) and other waterways. Other forms of disasters there’s precious little we can do about. Short of a global effort to prevent them from taking place in the first place.
That’s the part where you get incensed by the results of the Copenhagen Summit and see the need for continuing protests from the citizens of the planet to compel their leaders to save the planet. If you can’t do it for yourself, do it for your children.
I don’t know if the Mayan prediction about 2012 being the end of the world will come true. But I do know that if we do not heed the writing in the wind or the stones, it will happen as surely as the setting of the sun. If not in 2012, at least not far from that. It won’t be from an asteroid hitting the earth or a solar flare burning the planet to a crisp. It will be from human folly. It will be from Earth’s most powerful leaders being entombed under the rubble of self-interest and greed, unable to see anything, hear anything, feel anything, and, quite unlike the victims of earthquakes who are pinned underneath, not particularly caring to see the light of day again. For them—or for us, unless we change their minds or them themselves if their minds cannot be changed—the writing on the wall will read:
You have been judged, and found stupid.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:19:00 01/19/2010
The one who’s bound to have absolute sympathy, and empathy for the victims of the Haiti earthquake is Sonia Roco, an LP senatorial candidate. She knows what it means to be pinned underneath the rubble for more than 24 hours, hoping against hope to be rescued but fearing the worst. She knows the experience of living death.
Sonia was one of those who went through the ordeal of being buried alive when the Hotel Nevada in Baguio was struck down by a killer earthquake in July 1990. She was there for an NGO conference sponsored by USAID when the room swayed violently and everything went black. It was sudden, Sonia recalled. One moment they were lining up before a buffet table for merienda bantering about, the next it was pitch dark. She didn’t have time to go for her handbag, which was her reflex action before the lights went out.
I leave Sonia to tell her story in detail. I do hope she does in her sorties. It is a gripping, and inspiring, story of death and resurrection. Suffice it to say here that it was traumatizing, made all the more so by her bilas, Peachie, the wife of Raul Roco’s brother Cho, dying there along with many others. Peachie was hunched over a table and her feet pressed tightly over something. That was how she described it to Sonia soon after the building caved in. She was in great pain, which she bore for 12 hours before giving in. Her last words were: “Son, I can’t take it anymore. My legs are numb. I’m so tired.”
I can only hope Sonia recollects that milestone in her life this July as a senator. She herself says the experience gave her a resolve to give back to the world for the life she got for herself that day, or night, or womb-tomb of time. I believe her. Experiences like that have been known to make people kinder.
But even without experiencing that, your mind must reel from the spectacle of torment left behind by the earthquake that struck Haiti. The buildings torn down like they were made of matchsticks, the mountain of litter and the stench of the dead, the keening and howling and rioting rending the air and earth of that land. As if that country wasn’t already ground down by mind-boggling poverty. That is the face of hell on earth.
Your heart goes out to the people, but your mind also seethes at the recollection of the failed Copenhagen Summit, a meeting gathered to save the planet but which produced nothing of consequence. Certainly nothing that binds the countries, the United States and China, in particular, the two biggest polluters of the earth, to meeting definite targets. The summit of course could have done nothing to prevent the mother of all tremors from flattening Haiti, but it could have prevented more cataclysms of this sort from happening over the next several years. Or lessened the extent of their ferocity.
Does anybody really need any more terrifying proof of a dying planet? Of course more violent earthquakes have shaken the earth in the past. We ourselves have had a couple of them in the last half of the 20th century, the one in 1968, which turned the Ruby Towers into dust, and the one in 1990, which turned a great deal of Baguio into the same state. But at no time have they happened with numbing frequency and severity, alongside other epic disasters, some of them coming completely unexpectedly. It is no small irony that the countries that have resisted efforts at reducing carbon emissions, the United States and China, have themselves been hit by violent cataclysms. Sichuan was hit by an exceptionally murderous earthquake in 2008.
Shortly before the Haiti earthquake, a blizzard blanketed parts of the US east coast in snow and fog, causing a whiteout (visibility zero) in many places. Before that, there was a whole train of natural disasters, from hurricane to superstorms howling across the Pacific to floodwaters inundating, of all places, Jeddah in November last year (worst flooding in a decade, the product of twice the amount of rainfall in a year). Some years in the more distant past have seen more violent cataclysms, but nothing like the cumulative, sustained and accelerating incidences of cataclysms happening today.
The real worry is not that we might suffer the same fate as Haiti, or be hit again by an earthquake the size of 1968 and 1990. The real worry is that we might be hit by other types of disasters we never thought could hit us. Not unlike “Ondoy” which came out of nowhere and wrought the devastation it did. Floods we can alleviate by clearing esteros (creeks) and other waterways. Other forms of disasters there’s precious little we can do about. Short of a global effort to prevent them from taking place in the first place.
That’s the part where you get incensed by the results of the Copenhagen Summit and see the need for continuing protests from the citizens of the planet to compel their leaders to save the planet. If you can’t do it for yourself, do it for your children.
I don’t know if the Mayan prediction about 2012 being the end of the world will come true. But I do know that if we do not heed the writing in the wind or the stones, it will happen as surely as the setting of the sun. If not in 2012, at least not far from that. It won’t be from an asteroid hitting the earth or a solar flare burning the planet to a crisp. It will be from human folly. It will be from Earth’s most powerful leaders being entombed under the rubble of self-interest and greed, unable to see anything, hear anything, feel anything, and, quite unlike the victims of earthquakes who are pinned underneath, not particularly caring to see the light of day again. For them—or for us, unless we change their minds or them themselves if their minds cannot be changed—the writing on the wall will read:
You have been judged, and found stupid.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Aksyon Demokratiko, Roco's Party, Swears in Local Candidates
Aksyon Demokratiko, the national political party founded by the late Senator and DepEd Secretary Raul Roco, and now headed by its Chairperson, Sonia Roco, swore into the party local candidates from different provinces and cities. The oath-taking took place last November 28 in Club Filipino.
“We are happy to welcome these reform-minded and action-oriented truth warriors into the folds of Aksyon Demokratiko. Aksyon has always been in the forefront in the crusade for change and was one of the first to entreat Senator Noynoy to run for President. Before we took them into the party, other than supporting Aksyon’s principles, we also had to make sure that they would be supporting Noynoy Aquino for the presidency all the way. “ said Mrs. Roco, who is also the Senate candidate of Aksyon for next year’s elections under the slate of the Noy-Mar tandem.
“Aksyon’s vision is a creative people in a self-reliant nation united under God. We all hope that you and the constituency you represent will carry the cudgels for the people and work diligently towards Aksyon’s vision for the people. “ she added while addressing the local candidates.
On November 27, Aksyon Demokratiko, represented by Mrs. Roco signed a coalition agreement with the Liberal party thru its party president Mar Roxas and witnessed by LP’s standard bearer, Noynoy Aquino.
One of those sworn into the party is Sr. Superintendent Cezar Mancao, the whistle blower and witness to the Dacer-Corbito murder case which allegedly implicates Sen. Panfilo Lacson and former President Joseph Estrada. He is running for a seat in Congress in Compostela Valley.
Others running under the banner of Aksyon is Oscar Robes who is running for Congressman in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. Mayor Pedro Cuerpo of Rodriguez, Rizal is now running for Governor for Rizal. Together with Cuerpo is Alberto Carasco running for mayor of Rodriguez, Rizal.
Bibot Domingo – former Vice-Mayor of Mandaluyong, has been appointed Chairperson of Aksyon for Mandaluyong while his sister, Angelyn Domingo-Buan is running for Mayor with a full slate for the city council. Cyrus Lanot, La Rainne Sarmiento and Kristine Macatlang are all running for City Council in the 4th District of Quezon City. Edmund Dante Janda will also be running for Congress for the 2nd District of Oriental Mindoro Other candidates for various provinces and cities such as Naga City, Camarines Sur, Leyte, Pampanga, Ilocos Sur,Occidental Mindoro and Bulacan have also been sworn in.
Hermie Aquino and Boji Cabochan, the party’s Secretary-General and Political Liaison respectively, both averred that it is important that all candidates sworn in will adhere to the party’s principles which have been fought for consistently by Raul Roco and now carried on by Sonia Roco, Aksyon, and the various sectors such as the youth and women.
“We are happy to welcome these reform-minded and action-oriented truth warriors into the folds of Aksyon Demokratiko. Aksyon has always been in the forefront in the crusade for change and was one of the first to entreat Senator Noynoy to run for President. Before we took them into the party, other than supporting Aksyon’s principles, we also had to make sure that they would be supporting Noynoy Aquino for the presidency all the way. “ said Mrs. Roco, who is also the Senate candidate of Aksyon for next year’s elections under the slate of the Noy-Mar tandem.
“Aksyon’s vision is a creative people in a self-reliant nation united under God. We all hope that you and the constituency you represent will carry the cudgels for the people and work diligently towards Aksyon’s vision for the people. “ she added while addressing the local candidates.
On November 27, Aksyon Demokratiko, represented by Mrs. Roco signed a coalition agreement with the Liberal party thru its party president Mar Roxas and witnessed by LP’s standard bearer, Noynoy Aquino.
One of those sworn into the party is Sr. Superintendent Cezar Mancao, the whistle blower and witness to the Dacer-Corbito murder case which allegedly implicates Sen. Panfilo Lacson and former President Joseph Estrada. He is running for a seat in Congress in Compostela Valley.
Others running under the banner of Aksyon is Oscar Robes who is running for Congressman in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. Mayor Pedro Cuerpo of Rodriguez, Rizal is now running for Governor for Rizal. Together with Cuerpo is Alberto Carasco running for mayor of Rodriguez, Rizal.
Bibot Domingo – former Vice-Mayor of Mandaluyong, has been appointed Chairperson of Aksyon for Mandaluyong while his sister, Angelyn Domingo-Buan is running for Mayor with a full slate for the city council. Cyrus Lanot, La Rainne Sarmiento and Kristine Macatlang are all running for City Council in the 4th District of Quezon City. Edmund Dante Janda will also be running for Congress for the 2nd District of Oriental Mindoro Other candidates for various provinces and cities such as Naga City, Camarines Sur, Leyte, Pampanga, Ilocos Sur,Occidental Mindoro and Bulacan have also been sworn in.
Hermie Aquino and Boji Cabochan, the party’s Secretary-General and Political Liaison respectively, both averred that it is important that all candidates sworn in will adhere to the party’s principles which have been fought for consistently by Raul Roco and now carried on by Sonia Roco, Aksyon, and the various sectors such as the youth and women.
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