LP hopes to fare better in post-Rody Senate race
The Philippine Star|July 05, 2024
After losing heavily in the last three elections, the opposition Liberal Party (LP) will again try to battle it out with pro-administration senatorial candidates, but this time in a post-Duterte political arena under the administration of President Marcos.
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Rep. Edcel Lagman, president of the LP, which was the ruling party during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III from 2010 to 2016, revealed that they could not yet fill the 12-member slate for the Senate.

"We're not going to have a full slate. At the most, we will field about six candidates for the senatorial elections," the veteran congressman, who represents the first district of Albay province in Bicol, told reporters at the Kapihan sa Manila Hotel forum last Wednesday.

He refused to name the candidates, however, even if among those who lost in Duterte's midterm polls in 2019 were former senator Bam Aquino, human rights lawyer Chel Diokno and former solicitor general Florin Hilbay.

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