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Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III reports to members of the media on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, the accomplishments of the Upper Chamber under the 18th Congress. Joseph Vidal, Senate PRIB/File

Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III reports to members of the media on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, the accomplishments of the Upper Chamber under the 18th Congress. Sotto said over 500 bills passed during the current Congress were signed into law. Of the total, 197 legislative measures were of national importance. He also cited three adopted resolutions on the Senate's concurrence in the ratification of treaties, namely, the Convention on Temporary Admission, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and the Arms Trade Treaty. Joseph Vidal, Senate PRIB

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Sherrie Ann Torres

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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/171921059122220220621-senate-sotto-PRIB-3.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III reports to members of the media on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, the accomplishments of the Upper Chamber under the 18th Congress. Joseph Vidal, Senate PRIB/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III reports to members of the media on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, the accomplishments of the Upper Chamber under the 18th Congress. <em>Joseph Vidal, Senate PRIB/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) Chairman Vicente Sotto III thumbed down Monday a political scenario in which voters would see the opposition group forming an alliance with the administration camp. </p><p>&quot;Nothing much to say except I doubt it,&quot; Sotto said when asked for a reaction about the assessment made by Dean Julio Teehankee of the Dela Salle University’s Political Science Department of such a future.   </p><p>Teehankee in a TeleRadyo Serbisyo interview has opened a possible political alliance between the opposition camp led by the Liberal Party and the administration group led by PFP, given their common stand on major issues like the tension in the West Philippine Sea. </p><p>The NPC, which Sotto heads, recently inked an alliance with the President’s Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) with the end goal of strengthening their members’ chances of victory in the 2025 elections. </p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/6/23/npc-expels-bamban-mayor-alice-guo-from-party-1326" id="isPasted">RELATED: NPC expels Bamban Mayor Alice Guo from party ahead of 2025 polls</a></div><p>The alliance also comes with the two parties’ commitment to pursue the President’s legislative agenda vigorously. </p><p>But for Sotto, having strange bedfellows in next year’s elections is very unlikely. </p><p>“I have heard politicians in the PFP alliance say that the things and words they (LP) have said about the President in the last elections were adverse and deleterious,” Sotto said. </p><p>“The analysts should believe (former) Sen Leila (de Lima). They are the opposition,” Sotto, former Senate President said. </p><p>Sotto, when asked by ABS-CBN News if he also sees the camp of Vice President Sara Duterte as the “new opposition” as claimed by lawyer Harry Roque said: “Nope. Not (at) all.” </p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/6/23/mainstream-opposition-may-have-more-in-common-with-administration-than-with-dutertes-expert-1132" id="isPasted">READ: Mainstream opposition may have more in common with administration than with Dutertes — expert</a></div><p>The NPC according to Sotto, is also in exclusive alliance with the President’s PFP party. </p><p>Meanwhile PFP President, South Cotabato Governor Reynaldo Tamayo, Jr is in Manila to meet with President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. </p><p>Tamayo told ABS-CBN News that he was summoned by the President to come to their Monday luncheon meeting, which he declined to discuss pending the result of his audience with the Chief Executive.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><br/></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/_FgJJpBor94?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Nationalist People’s Coalition Chairman Vicente Sotto III thumbed down Monday a political scenario in which voters would see the opposition group forming an alliance with the administration camp.</p>

Nationalist People’s Coalition Chairman Vicente Sotto III thumbed down Monday a political scenario in which voters would see the opposition group forming an alliance with the administration camp.

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Sotto doubts possibility of admin bets forming alliance with opposition

Sherrie Ann Torres,

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Published Jun 24, 2024 02:32 PM PHT

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