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PDP-Laban faction seeks to oust Pimentel, Alvarez from party posts

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<h3><br/>Pimentel: Event by &#x27;rogue members&#x27; not sanctioned</h3><p>MANILA - A faction of PDP-Laban convened on Friday to call for the removal of party leaders Sen. Aquilino Pimentel and Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez. </p><p>Pimentel is party president while Alvarez, who was ousted as House Speaker on Monday, is secretary-general.</p><p>The party faction gathered at the Amoranto Stadium in Quezon City to elect new leaders, said Willy Talag, PDP-Laban Membership Committee chair for the National Capital Region. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><div dir="ltr" lang="und"><a href="https://t.co/v8H00BtDf6">https://t.co/v8H00BtDf6</a></div>— sherrie ann torres (@sherieanntorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/sherieanntorres/status/1022686365371125763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2018</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Under the party&#x27;s bylaws and constitution, the party should hold elections every 2 years, said Talag, who seeks to replace Alvarez as secretary-general.</p><p>A certain Rogelio Garcia from Soccsksargen was nominated as Pimentel&#x27;s replacement, Talag said.</p><div><strong>Willy who?</strong></div><p>Pimentel said the gathering and the election of new officials was &quot;not officially sanctioned&quot; by PDP-Laban as it was convened by a member &quot;who was expelled from the party.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Talag is unknown to me. I researched, nagtanong ako sa mga tao (I asked around), apparently he ran in 2016 for congressman in a district in Makati and got 6,000 votes,&quot; Pimentel told ANC&#x27;s Dateline Philippines.</p><p>&quot;He&#x27;s not even a party stalwart,&quot; he said.</p><div><strong> &#x27;Rogue members&#x27;</strong></div><p>Pimentel also rebuffed Talag&#x27;s claims that around 10,000 party members attended the gathering and clamored for new party leaders.</p><p>&quot;They claim to be a national assembly but where did the people come from? It&#x27;s easy to mobilize people if you have money,&quot; Pimentel said.</p><p>&quot;They are rogue members. Some of them are even non-members,&quot; he added.</p><p>The senator said the party will file legal cases against those who organized the event.</p><p>&quot;They are usurpers of party authority and shall be dealt with in accordance with existing election and criminal laws and party rules,&quot; he said.</p><p>Pimentel was removed as Senate President by his peers in May, while Alvarez was ousted as Speaker on the day Duterte delivered his third State of the Nation Address.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/21/18/sotto-elected-senate-president">Sotto elected Senate president</a></li>	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/23/18/arroyo-completes-house-coup-after-sona">Arroyo completes House coup after SONA</a></li></ul><div><strong>-- with a report from Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News</strong></div>

<p>MANILA - A faction of PDP-Laban convened on Friday to call for the removal of party leaders Sen. Aquilino Pimentel and Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez. </p>

MANILA - A faction of PDP-Laban convened on Friday to call for the removal of party leaders Sen. Aquilino Pimentel and Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez.