{"id":175926,"date":"2018-08-09T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=175926"},"modified":"2025-03-09T03:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T07:40:21","slug":"duterte-meets-pdp-laban-amid-wrangling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/09\/duterte-meets-pdp-laban-amid-wrangling\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte meets with PDP-Laban amid wrangling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_175927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175927\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PRRD6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-175927\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PRRD6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PRRD6-1.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PRRD6-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PRRD6-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PRRD6-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Rodrigo Roa Duterte presides over the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) caucus held at the Diamond Hotel in Manila on August 9, 2018. SIMEON CELI JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday met the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) amid the ruling party\u2019s leadership row, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said it was Duterte who as party chairman called for a party meeting in an effort to unify the PDP-Laban factions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell of course, he wants to unify the party and he will clarify that he remains Chairman of the Party. He will be there. He will be in the PDP meeting later this afternoon (Thursday),\u201d Roque said in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy levitra oral jelly online <a href=\"https:\/\/careerslifetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/levitra-oral-jelly.html\">careerslifetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/levitra-oral-jelly.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Roque said he has no idea if there are factions \u201cbut he (Duterte) will speak to the entire PDP-Laban political party\u201d at the Diamond Hotel in Manila.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy erythromycin online <a href=\"https:\/\/careerslifetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/erythromycin.html\">careerslifetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/erythromycin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I do not know if in his mind there are factions. He will speak with the PDP-Laban,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a PDP-Laban\u2019s faction headed by national council chairman Rogelio Garcia conducted an election where Garcia reportedly replaced Senator Aquilino &#8220;Koko&#8221; Pimentel III as party\u2019s president and Willy Talag as new secretary-general, replacing former House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy finpecia online <a href=\"https:\/\/careerslifetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/finpecia.html\">careerslifetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/finpecia.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Pimentel has rejected the election, saying Garcia\u2019s group members have been expelled from the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said there is only one PDP-Laban \u201cas far as the President is concerned\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday met the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) amid the ruling party\u2019s leadership row, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":175927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287806,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175926\/revisions\/287806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}