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Satur: We would have cut ties with Villar if he was Arroyo’s bet


Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo said Friday he would have promptly questioned any alliance with Senator Manuel Villar Jr. if the Nacionalista Party standard bearer was in any way cooperating with the camp of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. "We would have immediately reconsidered our alliance with Sen. Villar if he had agreed to any form of cooperation with the Arroyos," Ocampo said in a press statement, speaking in behalf of himself and Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza, both of whom are guest senatorial candidates of NP. "As far as we're concerned, there is no 'Villarroyo.' It's all a concoction of the spin doctors of Liberal Party to destroy Sen. Villar's credibility and by extension, Makabayan's alliance with him," he added. Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan, or Makabayan, as described in its website, is a "political coalition of progressive party-list groups" that officially carries the senatorial candidacies of Ocampo and Maza. Ocampo said their alliance with Villar has to do with their common stand against the corruption of the Macapagal-Arroyo presidency. He said LP was evidently determined to run a dirty campaign primarily based on black propaganda. "This also has to do with the undeniable truth that their standard bearer Sen. Noynoy Aquino has no genuine platform of government to present. His track record has shown a mostly blank slate, hence the LP has not much to work on," the lawmaker said. He added the strategy to erode and malign the credibility of the NP standard bearer is also in line with the LP's efforts to deflect the public's attention on the LP's own standard bearer’s "inherent weaknesses as a public servant." "Our alliance with Sen. Villar is not a relationship of convenience but one based on principled unities. He agreed to a common agenda with Makabayan and said yes to our legislative proposals. We recognize his stand against the Macapagal-Arroyo government," Ocampo said. —JV, GMANews.TV

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