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Workers coalition for 2025 polls
By J.Lo
“As party focused on improving rights and conditions of workers, expanding middle class, and advocating for key labor reforms, WPP recognizes collaboration is essential to achieving its goals for common good,” Newly elected Workers’ Party Philippines (WPP) president Sonny Matula said group of workers is actively negotiating with several political parties to form coalition for coming May 2025 midterm elections.
Matula said they are discussing with leaders of Liberal Party and Bagumbayan for formation of its senatorial slate.
“To make real change, we need to ally ourselves with other parties that share our vision for uplifting Filipino workers and marginalized… collective effort,” he noted.
Matula, also heads Federation of Free Workers (FFW), intends to run in senatorial elections.
WPP is also considering its Muslim leaders in south for inclusion in their senatorial, regional and local slates.
Around 100 trade union and party leaders attended recent WPP Convention in Quezon City.
Workers’ Party is poised to present strong and united platform for 2025 elections.
Meanwhile, Commission on Elections (Comelec) is again offering to donate old precinct count optical scan (PCOS) and vote counting machines (VCM) to interested government agencies.
Comelec Chairman George Garcia said it is renewing its offer to Department of Education (DepEd) or Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) to take custody of old machines to save storage costs.
“Comelec is very much willing to donate all of 80,000 PCOS and 97,000 VCM machines to DepEd or even to PRC, we are reiterating our offer, especially since offer was made to previous DepEd secretary…we want to make same offer to new DepEd secretary” Garcia said in recent press briefing.
DepEd personnel under then secretary and Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio, Garcia said, have already inspected PCOS and VCM units and were impressed at how Comelec maintained their good condition.
Although they could no longer use them, Garcia noted that Comelec needs to pay for warehouse storage occupies big space.
Comelec initially leased PCOS from Smartmatic-TIM for P7.2 billion for 2010 elections, and then purchased them at P1.8 billion for May 2013 midterm polls.
For May 2016 elections, Comelec decided to lease VCMs, later on purchased and used until May 2022 elections.
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