Senatorial candidate Satur Ocampo (Bayan Muna) today announced the decision of the Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan) not to support Bongbong Marcos after yesterday’s mutual adoption of candidacies with Senators Manny Villar and Loren Legarda.
“We wish to emphasize that the key basis of Makabayan’s mutual adoption agreement with the Villar-Legarda tandem is the accord to carry specific reforms in our platform during the campaign and to implement them after victory,” said Ocampo in a statement.
Ocampo added that “Makabayan intends to talk with other senatorial candidates of the Nacionalista Party for concrete forms of cooperation on the basis of our platform except with Bongbong Marcos.
“We respect and uphold the expressed will of our mass constituents not to support Bongbong Marcos senatorial bid because he echoes his mother’s repeated claim that former Pres. Marcos did nothing wrong in his dictatorial rule,” Ocampo said.
Ocampo added that the Marcoses “have in so many ways obstructed the rendering of justice and indemnification to the victims of martial law and the recovery of ill-gotten wealth.”
“One important aspect of the platform we clinched with Sen. Villar and the Nacionalita Party is the commitment to immediately give justice and indemnification to martial law victims and the full recovery of ill gotten wealth according to law,” Ocampo concluded.
Makabayan is a coalition of eight progressive parties, namely Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, Gabriela, Kabataan, Migrante, ACT Teachers, Courage and Katribu. #
from: bayanmuna.net
