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| from left Atty. Joel Obar, National Legal Counsel of HFMP, Sec. Gen Vergilio S. Dela Cruz HFMP and block t-shirt Celso Tizon, National Chairman of HFMP DUMAGUETE CITY, Oct. 20 (PNA) -- The national legal counsel of the Hugpong Federal Movement in the Philippines is happy to report the country is ready for the conversion of the movement into a national political party of the President. |
In
his words, Atty. Joel Obar said the country is already transformed into such
and has been organized all over the country.
Obar
just organized the Hugpong Federal Movement in Marawi and is off to Sindangan,
Zamboanga del Norte with a crowd of “Lumads” after which he will then proceed
to an Igorot group in Baguio up to Kalinga and Laoag over the weekend.
With
growing membership around the country, Obar believes formation of the national
political party of the President is in order, with the expected merge of
Hugpong ang the Kilusang Pagbabago, which is expected to be accomplished within
the year.
Obar
said once the Hugpong Federal Party of the Philippines is formed, it will be
the party to follow through all the reform programs of President Rodrigo
Duterte as the Hugpong Federal Movement and the Kilusan ng Pagbabago await the
creation of the Presidential Commission on Federalism which is tasked to draft
the Duterte version to be submitted to either the Constitutional Convention,
Constituent Assembly or if not, to the People's Initiative.
Meanwhile,
the position of the Hugpong Federal Movement of the Philippines is to sustain
and maintain the Negros Island Region (NIR).
National
legal counsel Atty. Joel Obar said Hugpong will push for the retention of NIR
in requesting the President for a reconsideration.
Everybody
knows that the formation of the NIR was a political bribe of the Liberal Party
hoping that they will win in the elections with the LP standard bearer former
DILG Sec. Mar Roxas even without a budget, Obar pointed out.
Obar
believes the President could be listening to requests from different sectors to
maintain the NIR because to date, the executive order that is supposed to
dissolve the newly-born region has not been signed, and that many are crossing
their fingers that eventually NIR will become another state of the federal form
of government. (PNA)
