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Koko rejects poll bets from PDP-Laban faction

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/11/27/20160804-koko-pimentel-sp-1.jpg"/><figcaption>Senator Koko Pimentel. File Photo</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA - The PDP-Laban will not endorse in next year’s elections the members who joined a renegade faction of the party, Senator Koko Pimentel said Monday.The Commission on Elections recently recognized Pimentel&#x27;s leadership over that of a faction headed by lawyer Rogelio Garcia, which submitted its own list of nominees in the 2019 midterm elections for at least 28 areas.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/30/18/comelec-affirms-koko-pimentel-wing-in-pdp-laban-row">Comelec affirms Koko Pimentel wing in PDP-Laban row</a></li></ul>Pimentel, president of PDP-Laban, said his group has its own candidates and cannot adopt Garcia&#x27;s bets. &quot;How can we adopt, magkakalaban?&quot; he told reporters.(How can we adopt when they&#x27;re running against each other.)&quot;We have to start party discipline… Hindi puwedeng you bypass legitimate party leadership just because you want a party certificate of nomination so kukuha ka sa colorum,&quot;he added.(You cannot bypass legitimate party leadership just because you want a party certificate of nomination so you&#x27;ll get one from the colorum.)PDP-Laban, which is chaired by President Rodrigo Duterte, is studying filing criminal cases against Garcia&#x27;s faction, said Pimentel.&quot;Kung mayroon kang gusto, paghirapan mo, &#x27;wag yung shortcut palagi ang nasa isip, parang the Lotto mentality,&quot; he said.(If you want something, work for it, don&#x27;t think of shortcuts akin to the Lotto mentality.)&quot;They cannot insist na PDP-Laban sila, but if they insist on campaigning they are actually deceiving the people already. So meron nang (there is already a) political issue... and a possible criminal case,&quot; he added.<div>Report from Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News</div>

The PDP-Laban will not endorse in next year’s elections the members who joined a renegade faction of the party, Senator Koko Pimentel said Monday.

The PDP-Laban will not endorse in next year’s elections the members who joined a renegade faction of the party, Senator Koko Pimentel said Monday.