People’s Champ Movement going national? Cusi’s camp sees basis to kick Pacquiao out from PDP-Laban

Senator Manny Pacquiao could be expelled from PDP-Laban over his alleged plan to turn his regional party, People’s Champ Movement, into a national political party, PDP-Laban Secretary General Melvin Matibag said Thursday (August 12).

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Quoting “reliable sources,” Matibag said in a statement that PCM amended its Constitution and By-Laws (CBL) to serve as “national party” during its organizational meeting held on December 20, 2020.

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Photos of the program shared by Matibag from PCM’s meeting showed its agenda to include the following: reorganization of the party, the amendment of the CBL as National Political Party, adoption and ratification of the amended CBL as a national political party, and election of officers, among other matters.

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Minutes of the meeting also identified Pacquiao as the party’s president. His brother, Rogelio, was named as PCM’s executive vice president. PCM officials met at the Pacquiao Compound, NLSA Road, Lagao, General Santos City.

Pacquiao founded PCM in 2009 as a regional political party, covering General Santos City and Sarangani.

Matibag, an ally of Energy Secretary and PDP-Laban president Alfonso Cusi, said Pacquiao “has virtually created for himself a rabbit hole” with his alleged plan to make PCM a national political party. The move, he added, could lead to the senator’s “expulsion” from PDP-Laban.

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Pacquiao was ousted as the ruling party’s president during the national assembly held last month, while he was in the United States to train for a boxing match.

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He is widely believed to be eyeing the presidency in the 2022 elections.

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