Duterte to mediate his party’s disunion

President Rodrigo Duterte will try his best to fix the faction tiff ongoing inside the country’s ruling party, Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan  (PDP-Laban).

In a radio interview on Saturday, Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Bong  Go said Duterte will hold a caucus to fix the disunion of PDP-Laban when he told him about the national assembly of last Friday where a certain faction was electing “new leaders,”  replacing Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III and former speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.

Clueless about having faction inside the party, Go said: “I did not know about these factions. I told him, you’re chairman of both factions.

I’m also auditor of both factions. So he said, he will just call for a caucus and will try to unite them.

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Go also said that upon reaching out to Rogelio Galicia, the “newly elected” PDP-Laban President and Pimentel, both were willing to have their groups unified by the Chief Executive.

The PDP-Laban brought Duterte to the seat of the presidency, it would be a waste to not try to fix this, he added.

(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 07/ 30 /18)