00:00Two months before the filing of the Certificate of Candidacy for the election of 2025,
00:06the party of the President and the party that he sometimes left.
00:11That is the Nationalista Party that was the party of his father.
00:15Witness, Ian Cruz.
00:24Less than a year before the election of 2025,
00:27the party of President Marcos of the Federal Party of the Philippines or PFP
00:31formed a new alliance.
00:33And one of the most prominent parties of the country,
00:37the Nationalista Party or NP.
00:39The NP led by former Senator Manny Villar,
00:42the newest ally of PFP,
00:45which was the first to form an alliance with LAKAS-NUCD,
00:48Nationalist People's Coalition and National Unity Party.
00:52I'm very, very happy that we are today formalizing that alliance.
01:00That 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
01:14in order to build a bright future for the country.
01:17The President himself told that he also came from the Nationalista Party,
01:22which was also the party of his father.
01:24He just left and joined the party of the Federal of the Philippines
01:28in his run as President of the election of 2022.
01:32I just left the NP because I was running for President 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 senatorial line-up,
02:03but the PFP believes that there's a big chance that their candidates will be the ones to lead in the midterm elections.
02:11When the election comes, it's really big because we'll just talk about who we'll fight
02:19and we'll 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.
02:31There are 10 governors and more than other local posts.
02:37For GMA Integrated News, Ian Cruz is your witness.
02:43Kapuso, let's be witnesses together.
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