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NPC probes AG’s membership
By Nidz Godino
“Mayor Guo is an NPC member…she joined party after she won 2022 elections,” former Senate president Vicente Sotto III said during Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum Nationalist People’s Coalition is looking into origins of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, ran and won as an independent candidate but later joined party recently entered into alliance with President Ferdinand Marcos’ Partido Federal Pilipinas (PFP).
Sotto clarified that after controversy surrounding Guo, NPC has started investigating Bamban mayor.
Sotto asked Tarlac Gov. Susan Yap to look into Guo’s case.
“If there are party rules violations by member, we will definitely decide on it, like Rep. Arny Teves,” he noted, referring to expelled Negros lawmaker.
He noted that Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, one of the senators investigating Guo, is with NPC.
“It doesn’t mean that even if she is our partymate, if she is really involved in POGO ,Philippine offshore gaming operators activities, human trafficking, then it will escalate in the party, like Teves, we will expel her,” Sotto said.
President Marcos’ PFP will ally with NPC in preparation for May 2025 midterm elections.
NPC’s alliance with PFP is formalization of its longtime close alliance with Marcos, Sotto said.
“Right now, NPC as party is in alliance with the President… merely formalizes association… realization of continuing allegiance, of friendship,” he added.
More questions instead of answers were raised about origins of Guo, stood by her Filipino citizenship during Senate investigation on her alleged involvement in Philippine offshore gaming operators.
Guo attended resumption of Sen. Risa Hontiveros’ investigation, centered on how she was able to grow her piggery business and go into local politics despite issues raised about her birth.
Hontiveros presented during hearing contradicting details in Guo’s birth certificate and those of her two siblings Shiela and Seimen, showed conflicting marriage dates of their parents, businessman Angelito Guo and Amelia.
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) confirmed to Hontiveros’ office that not only does patriarch Guo not have registered birth certificate, the Guo couple also do not have record of marriage in PSA.
Asked to explain discrepancies in their family’s birth records, Guo could not answer because she “did not prepare birth certificates.”
“My father has different partners…we do not talk about these sensitive matters in our family,” Guo said when asked why she did not question her father who is native of Fujian province.
“Gaps in document cannot be denied,” Hontiveros said.
Guo confirmed to senators what she media that she was “lovechild” of her father with Amelia, family househelp.
“How I wish I had perfect family,” Guo said of their family situation.
But senators raised possibility that Guo’s mother may not exist at all, after they learned from PSA that person under name Amelia Leal Guo does not have birth registration in its records.
“In the eyes of the law, there is no person born Amelia Leal… possible Amelia Leal is non-existing…so there are three irregularities here Amelia Leal is not real person, their marriage is null and father is not Filipino,” Gatchalian said.
This puts to question Guo’s birth certificate she used to prove her Filipino citizenship when she filed for candidacy as Bamban mayor, he said.
Senators did not buy Guo’s colorful story of growing up on farm and taking care of their farm animals when she was minor.
Guo claimed she was raised by her Chinese father to be entrepreneur and that she had always dreamed of being politician in their town.
But the mayor became evasive when pressed by Sen. Loren Legarda to recall to committee her childhood in Bamban.
“Tell us about first nine years of your life…tell us about your farm life… must have been charming, idyllic life…who are your Chinese or Filipino playmates… if you’re Chinese and fronting for other people, then go back to your country…but if you’re born here, convince us,” Legarda said.
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Guo maintained her story that she was born on farm but that she could not recall details of her childhood.
Asked to speak her Chinese language, Guo at first resisted, but was compelled to say in Fookien: “My father is from China… I am not Chinese… I am Filipino.”
“My life has not been normal,” teary-eyed Guo said.
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