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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr speaks to his cousin House Speaker Martin Romualdez during the National Tax Campaign at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on February 7, 2023. Philippine News Agency

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1715999892302marocs-file-05182024.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="President Ferdinand Marcos Jr speaks to his cousin House Speaker Martin Romualdez during the National Tax Campaign at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on February 7, 2023. Philippine News Agency"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">President Ferdinand Marcos Jr speaks to his cousin House Speaker Martin Romualdez during the National Tax Campaign at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on February 7, 2023.<em> Philippine News Agency</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — The Nationalist People&#x27;s Coalition will enter into an alliance with <span dir="ltr" id="isPasted">President </span>Ferdinand Marcos&#x27; Partido Federal ng Pilipinas for the 2025 midterm elections, its chairman, former Senate President Vicente Sotto III, said Saturday.</p><p>The NPC, which had members in the UniTeam senatorial slate in the 2022 elections, will be formalizing the alliance at a ceremony in Makati later Saturday.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/8/marcos-partido-federal-romualdez-s-lakas-cmd-ink-alliance-ahead-of-2025-elections-1256">READ: Marcos&#x27; Partido Federal, Romualdez’s Lakas-CMD ink alliance ahead of 2025 elections</a></div><p>&quot;Historically, the NPC has always been supportive of the elected President. With urgency, we continue to push for unity among the leaders of our great nation. With that in mind, our party will heed the call of the PFP,&quot; Sotto said of joining the Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas of PFP and of majority party Lakas-CMD.</p><p>&quot;I believe this alliance will foster cooperation and strong support for our President considering our party has almost 4,000 members, of which 1,910 are incumbent public officials,&quot; he also said.</p><p>NPC has five seats at the Senate and 38 at the House.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/11/lp-may-have-points-of-unity-with-new-admin-alliance-analyst-1022">RELATED: LP may have points of unity with new admin alliance — analyst  </a></div><p>Members of the Nacionalista Party, of which Marcos Jr. was a member until October 2021, earlier this month welcomed the possibility of an alliance with the PFP.</p><p>The new alliance does not yet include Vice President Sara Duterte&#x27;s Hugpong ng Pagbabago — part of the UniTeam in 2022 — or former President Rodrigo Duterte&#x27;s Partido Demokratiko Pilipino, but House Speaker Martin Romualdez of Lakas-CMD said at the launch of the new alliance earlier this month that <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/8/partido-federal-lakas-still-open-to-coalesce-with-vp-duterte-for-2025-polls-romualdez-1200">&quot;anything is possible.&quot;</a></p><div><strong>COALITIONS IN PHILIPPINE POLITICS </strong></div><p>The announcement of the new alliance effectively replaces the UniTeam, De La Salle University political science professor Anthony Borja said earlier this month, although acknowledging &quot;the nuance of Sen. Imee Marcos&#x27; persistent ties with the Dutertes.&quot;</p><p>He added: I think Marcos and Romualdez are separating the promise of political unity from the UniTeam, giving it a coalition that transcends the Marcos-Duterte alliance.&quot;  </p><p>In a Teleradyo Serbisyo interview earlier this month, public administration professor Dr. Edna Co said that politics in the Philippines has been characterized by coalition-building among parties.</p><p>Co said then that while there are many political parties in the Philippines, they are not distinct parties “in substance” and are more similar to each other than they are different.</p><p>“Naghahanap sila ng paraan kung paano magsasanib, magkakaisa. Basta ang goal is ‘paano kami mananalo’, pero hindi totoo sa substance na political party ito — napaka-fluid,” she said.</p><p>(They are looking for ways to merge and unite. The goal is ‘how do we win?’ but they are not a political party in substance — it’s all very fluid.)</p><div><strong> — Jonathan de Santos, ABS-CBN News</strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kE3g8kLFcAs?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>"I believe this alliance will foster cooperation and strong support for our President considering our party has almost 4,000 members, of which 1,910 are incumbent public officials," Sotto said.</p>

"I believe this alliance will foster cooperation and strong support for our President considering our party has almost 4,000 members, of which 1,910 are incumbent public officials," Sotto said.

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