Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi revealed Tuesday that some PDP-Laban members are pushing for Bong Go-Duterte tandem for Eleksyon 2022.
“Well, that’s no secret because ‘yung panawagan na tandem na ‘yan (that tandem) came out in Cebu when we had a meeting in Cebu,” Cusi, PDP-Laban’s vice chair, said in an interview on ANC.
Cusi said other parties, including PDP-Laban Cebu, wanted the Go-Duterte tandem for the presidency and vice presidency.
“There was a resolution for Go-Duterte [tandem] but in fairness po kay Senator Bong Go, sinabi po niya sa amin na ‘Huwag niyo ako isama d’yan.’ Ang sabi ko naman e ‘Hindi naman ako ang gumawa no’n. ‘Yun ay result of a meeting, consultative meeting in [the] Visayas and that was an output,’” Cusi narrated.
(He said that he doesn’t want to be included in that party decision. But what I told him is it resulted from a consultative meeting in [the] Visayas and that is the output of that meeting.)
Bong Go-Duterte tandem pushed by some PDP-Laban members – Cusi
However, Cusi clarified that the PDP-Laban Cebu’s call does not represent the party’s call in general.
“Again there is a process for the party to select its standard bearer pero kung sakali sabihin natin: Is it possible?’ It is possible but will it happen, that is another story,” he said.
Cusi admitted he had not decided yet to support Senator Go as PDP-Laban’s president.
“Definitely what I will support is whatever the decision of the party will be, whoever is chosen by the party, I will support that, I will toe the party line, that is the guiding principle for me,” he said.
However, he is sure that PDP-Laban members would follow Duterte’s lead on who they will support in the 2022 elections.
“This is President Duterte’s party. Lumaki po yung partido because of the president, habang naniniwala sila…naniniwala kay pangulo, susunod po yung mga naniwala kay pangulo. It, again, is a party decision, it is a party decision,” he said.
(The party has expanded because of the president. As long as they believe in President Duterte, they will follow him.)
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