A COALITION of six regional councils in Mindanao under the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan is set to hold a general assembly in Davao City on Sept. 15 to push the party leadership to revisit and implement the party’s constitution and by-laws.
Cesar Ledesma, one of the party founders and party secretariat of the Mindanao Area Council, said the coalition comprising the five regions in Mindanao and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will present their six-point agenda and manifesto for the consideration of Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III, the party’s national president.
Under the present set-up, the MAC region presidents included Cesar Cuntapay, Region XI; Rogelio Garcia, Region XII; Emmanuel Lumanao, Region XIII; Franklin Quijano, Region X; Noli Garcia, Region XI, and Datu Apan Piang, ARMM secretary-general.
Despite the threat of Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III to expel him, Cesar Cuntapay, president of the regional council for Southern Mindanao, called on the national council to grant the regional councils of Mindanao the autonomy to administer the affairs of the party "as allowed under the party charter" and restrain House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, the party's secretary general, from further administration of the oath-taking of new PDP-Laban members.