Lakas-CMD, Tingog predict 3 million Warays will vote for Alyansa bets

Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas candidates (Photo from the Philippine News Agency)

MANILA, Philippines — Two organizations told the Marcos administration that three million voters from Eastern Visayas will support the Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas slate in the 2025 midterm polls.

In a statement on Wednesday, Lakas-CMD and Tingog party-list said many voters in the region will show their support at a Unity Rally in Tacloban City on Thursday, May 8.

“Ang paninindigan ng Eastern Visayas ay malinaw: Susuportahan namin ang mga kandidatong may malasakit, may bisyon at may konkretong plano para sa bayan,” House Speaker Martin Romualdez said.

(The stand of Eastern Visayas is clear: We will support candidates who are caring, who have a vision and who have a concrete plan for the country.)

Romualdez is the president of the Lakas-CMD.

“Kapag nagkakaisa ang mga rehiyon, umuusad ang buong bansa. Ito ang ambag ng Eastern Visayas sa Bagong Pilipinas – isang pamahalaang nakaugat sa malasakit, pagkakaisa at tunay na paglilingkod,” he added.

(If the regions will unite, the nation will go forward. This is the contribution of Eastern Visayas to Bagong Pilipinas – a government that is rooted in caring, unity and true service.)

Alyansa’s senatorial candidates have been invited to the rally.

The event will be attended by six governors in Eastern Visayas.

13 of the region’s district representatives, around 10,000 community leaders and volunteers, seven city mayors and 136 municipal mayors from different political parties are expected to join the assembly.

Lakas-CMD and Tingog are dubbing the rally as “the strongest show of political force and regional unity in support of the administration’s 2025 midterm slate.”

The activities will feature a motorcade through Tacloban City, followed by a program inside the Tacloban Astrodome, where the senatorial candidates of the alliance will present their platforms.

“This is the unified voice of a region that has found strength and clarity in President Bongbong R. Marcos Jr.’s vision of a Bagong Pilipinas,” Tingog said in a statement.

“When leadership takes root in the grassroots, governance flourishes at the national level,” it noted.

Alyansa has already been to Tacloban, staging a rally at the Plaza Libertad which was attended by over 100,000 residents across Leyte.

During the event, Romualdez said Alyansa will get a big victory in this city and in the entire Leyte province.

READ: Romualdez vows big win for Alyansa in Leyte 

Romualdez is cousin of the chief executive.

The president’s mother, former First Lady Imelda Marcos, hails from Leyte, making the province a bailiwick of the administration.

READ: Acidre thanks Leyte for backing Alyansa Senate bets 

Alyansa is a tie-up between five political parties: Lakas-CMD, Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, Nationalist People’s Coalition, National Unity Party and the Nacionalista Party.

It is fielding an 11-person senatorial slate for the elections.