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Jose Rodel Clapano - The Philippine Star
May 29, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The Liberal Party has not made any final decision yet on whether to join the supermajority in the House of Representatives as the shift from the 19th to 20th Congress nears, LP acting president Erin Tañada said.
In an interview on Tuesday with “Storycon” on One News, Tañada said the party had a meeting attended by the six congressmen-elect LP members last week, during which the discussion on the matter was tabled until senator-elect Francis Pangilinan returns from the US.
“That is the question that was put up during the meeting. Do we vote as a bloc? We are only seven to decide. The matter was tabled for further discussion,” Tañada said.
He said that should the LP and the Mamamayang Liberal (ML) party-list decide that they will maintain their bloc and vote as one, then everyone should fall in line.
Tañada said he did not see the offer to Leila de Lima and Chel Diokno to join the panel that would prosecute Vice President Sara Duterte in the Senate impeachment trial as a sweetener.
He said they would also wait for the presentation of the new budget in August.
“We will see the presentation of the new budget come August 2025. If we are not comfortable with the way the budget is presented, we have to speak our minds with regard to this,” Tañada said.
‘Political kiss of death’
An alliance of the opposition such as the LP with President Marcos would be a “kiss of death politically” in the 2028 general elections, political analyst Tony La Viña said also on Storycon.
“That is written on the wall. Anyone with the stain of the support of Marcos will lose in 2028. So, be careful. That is what I feel,” La Viña said.
La Viña cited senators-elect Bam Aquino and Pangilinan, who distanced themselves from the Dutertes and the Marcoses during the recently concluded elections.
“Both of them are independent from Duterte and Marcos. That is important,” he said.
