00:00Two months before the election, the President's party formed an alliance with the party he left behind,
00:10the Nationalista Party, which was also a party of his father, Ian Cruz.
00:24Less than a year before the election,
00:27the new alliance was formed by President Marcos' party, the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, or PFP,
00:33and by the most prominent party in the country, the Nationalista Party, or NP.
00:39The NP was led by former Senator Manny Villar, the newest ally of the PFP,
00:45which was the first to form an alliance with the Lakas-NUCD, Nationalist People's Coalition, and National Unity Party.
00:57Formalizing that alliance, and that alliance now has formed the largest political bloc in the Philippines.
01:07We need to prove to the Filipino people that we are a nation capable of rising above our differences
01:13in order to build a bright future for the country.
01:17The President himself told that he also came from the Nationalista Party, which was also a party of his father.
01:25He just left and joined the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas in his run as President of the election in 2022.
01:32I just left the NP because the President was running and I was in a hurry.
01:38The NP was still, the Nationalista Party leadership was still trying to assess
01:47what will be the political situation for the last political cycles of the election of 2022.
01:55It's not because we didn't agree, it's because I was in a hurry.
02:00The coalition still doesn't have a Senator in line-up for now,
02:03but the PFP believes that there's a big chance that their candidates will be the ones to be endorsed in the midterm elections.
02:12When the election comes, it's really big because we will just talk about who will be the ones to fight
02:19and we will just talk about what will happen in our different areas.
02:25According to Rep. Ace Barbers of the NP, the Nationalista Party has 28 members,
02:3210 of whom are Governors, and even more than other local posts.
02:37For GMA Integrated News, Ian Cruz, Nakatutok, 24 Hours.
02:41For GMA Integrated News, Ian Cruz, Nakatutok, 24 Hours.
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