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E. Visayas party-list group hits 1-m membership mark

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TACLOBAN CITY—A week before the May 9 elections, a new regional party-list in Eastern Visayas has reached a million memberships already.

“We are happy that our members have already reached this number at this point of the campaign. We started with 143 municipal leaders and 4,932 barangay leaders. But now, we already have 906,441 members. We are so close to a million and we hope to reach our one million target before May 7,” said Jude Acidre, first nominee of Tingog Sinirangan.

The memberships mostly came from Eastern Visayas and some parts of Luzon.

According to Acidre, as the first regional political party in the region, they sought membership through its Project Aghat (or Encourage) that started in February.

“‘Project Aghat’ is the membership program of Tingog Sinirangan.  We are an organization, as an organization we are supposed to have members,” said Acidre, adding that their group seeks to give voice to Eastern Visayas’ people, as well as to bring in the development of the region.

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“For the past years, we noticed that party-lists engage the voters only during elections. After elections, party-lists forget their constituents and come back next election. Thus, Tingog wants to change the relationship between the people and the party-list as an organization. As a true political party, we want to have members. To Tingog Sinirangan, the members are not only voters, they are partners in regional development,” he said.

“They are our first believers, in Tingog’s vision for the region. However, this does not mean that Tingog will only serve its members. We want to be of service to all sectors and to the whole Eastern Visayas,” he said.

Eastern Visayas, known as the second poorest region in the country, has 2.7 million registered voters who will cast their votes this May 9.

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