3 kabaleyans eye senate seats
THREE Pangasinenses in senate race.
A lawyer, a mayor and a whistle-blower have been tapped by two major political parties to be in their respective slates.
Lawyer Raul Lambino from Pozorrubio, known as a Constitutional reforms advocate behind the move for the People’s Initiative for charter change in 2006, will don the Lakas-Kampi-CMD colors.
“I cannot say no to the new challenge of good governance under (Gilbert) Teodoro,” Lambino, who resides in Mangaldan, told The PUNCH in a telephone interview.
Another kabalayen in the administration’s senatorial slate is Binalonan Mayor Ramon Guico Jr., head of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines.
Guico, a cousin of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has been mayor for more than 20 years.
In the opposition side, Jose “̂Joey”̈ de Venecia III, son of former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., is also running for senator under the Partido ng Masang Pilipino whose standard-bearer is former President Joseph Estrada.
The young De Venecia, a businessman, came into national attention when he blew the whistle on the now aborted $328-million ZTE-National Broadband Network project, which implicated the President and her husband in illegal dealings.
Pangasinan is one of the provinces with the biggest number of voters in the country.#
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