THE Liberal Party is set to assemble a senatorial lineup for the 2025 midterm elections, said Albay First District Rep. Edcel Lagman, noting it will not be a full slate due to the party’s limited resources.
“We are going to spread so thinly what we have but definitely we will put up candidates to the maximum of six,” he said during the Kapihan sa Manila Hotel media forum.
Potential members of the lineup are Sen. Rissa Hontiveros of Akbayan, former senator Bam Aquino of Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino and former senator Antonio Trillanes IV of Magdalo Party.
Albay 1st District Rep. Edcel Lagman. TMT file photo
Lagman said the Liberal Party was in the process of persuading former vice president Leni Robredo to run for senator instead of Naga City mayor.
He added that despite a lack of resources, the party never considered forming an alliance with the camp of former president Rodrigo Duterte or the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
“For electoral purposes, the Liberal Party will remain as the political opposition, and it will put up an independent slate both at the national and local levels. But on issue to issue basis, there can be an alliance,” said Lagman.
The Liberal Party thanked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for accrediting its sectoral wing, Mamamayang Liberal.
“Mamamayang Liberal embodies the core values and principles that the Liberal Party has always stood for—dedication to the welfare of the disadvantaged and commitment to social justice,” it said in a statement.
The Liberal Party commended former House of Representatives member Teodoro Baguilat Jr. and their partners for their contribution to the formation of Mamamayang Liberal.
On Tuesday, Mamamayang Liberal was approved by the Comelec to run as a party-list in next year’s midterm polls.
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