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Pacquiao: People's Champ Movement is siblings' party

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Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News

<p><br/>MANILA - Sen. Manny Pacquiao on Wednesday downplayed questions if moves to turn the People&#x27;s Champ Movement (PCM) into a national political party was a back-up plan for his rumored presidential candidacy in case the Commission on Elections sees another group as the legitimate PDP-Laban.</p><p>&quot;Ang PCM, partido ng kapatid ko,&quot; he said, without specifying who among his 5 siblings controlled the party.</p><p>(The PCM is my sibling&#x27;s party.)</p><p>&quot;Matagal na &#x27;yang inaapela ng mga kapatid ko na gawing national yung PCM. Last 2 elections pa, nagkataon na ngayon lang nagawa,&quot; he said.</p><p>(My siblings have been appealing to turn PCM into a national party for so many years. They have been working on that since 2 elections ago, it just so happens that they finally did it this year.)</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/MannyPacquiao?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MannyPacquiao</a> says his siblings have been working to make People’s Champ Movement a national party even before 2016, denies he will use PCM as a back-up vehicle for his presidential bid should Comelec honor PDP-Laban’s Cusi wing. <a href="https://t.co/ruz2y2o3E4">pic.twitter.com/ruz2y2o3E4</a></p>— Kat Domingo (@_katrinadomingo) <a href="https://twitter.com/_katrinadomingo/status/1435529252695248896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2021</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Pacquiao said he is not an officer of PCM.</p><p>&quot;Umalis na po ako nung naging officer po ako ng PDP,&quot; he said.</p><p>(I left PCM when I became an officer of PDP.)</p><p>Pacquiao joined PDP-Laban in 2012, after he exited the Nacionalista Party. He was appointed as the ruling party&#x27;s president last year after Sen. Aquilino &quot;Koko&quot; Pimentel III stepped down from the post.</p><p>Two factions within PDP-Laban have been feuding over the control of the ruling party: one group is headed by Pacquiao, while the other is led by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/07/21/pdp-laban-cusi-faction-wants-pacquiao-wing-acts-voided">PDP-Laban Cusi faction asks Comelec to void acts of Pacquiao wing</a></li></ul><p>The rival faction earlier said Pacquiao is establishing several political parties nationwide in case the boxing senator ends up as an independent candidate in the upcoming 2022 elections.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/17/21/pacquiao-building-other-political-parties-cusi-camp">Pacquiao building other political parties as &#x27;fall-back&#x27;, Cusi faction claims</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1750048" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

'Ang PCM, partido ng kapatid ko,' he said, without specifying who among his 5 siblings controlled the party.

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Pacquiao: People's Champ Movement is siblings' party

Katrina Domingo,

ABS-CBN News

Published September 08, 2021 08:23 PM PHT

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