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PDSP full support to Grey's
congressional bid in Samar assured
By RICKY J. BAUTISTA
January
28, 2007
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte –
Officials of the Partido Demokratiko-Sosyalista ng Pilipinas (PDSP) on Friday
(January 26) assured full support to San Jorge, Samar Mayor Joseph V. Grey who
will be running against incumbent Congressman Reynaldo S. Uy in the first
district of Samar in the forthcoming May 14 polls.
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The PDSP, it was learned, is a
nationwide political party drawn from all classes and sectors of Philippine
society, but specially from workers, small farmers, small fisher folks, and
progressive elements among professionals and persons in business. It embodies
the interests and aspirations of the Philippines and works for their
empowerment, especially of the poor and disadvantaged who are marginalized by
unjust societal structures.
Jorge Azuelo, the chief of
staff of the PDSP Secretary General Timoteo A. Aranjuez, said Grey could count
on the party's total backing when he starts campaigning. Grey, had taken his
"special" Basic Orientation Seminar (BOS) and oath last earlier this month at
the central headquarters of the party in Manila in the presence of party
officials, some are "big names" in the Philippine politics.
Azuelo stressed that the party
chaired by National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales deserves the "full and
unequivocal" support to Grey, who is a former Liberal Party. Azuelo and some
other party officials were in the city Friday for the basic orientation seminar
conducted at the Mac Arthur Beach Resort Hotel in Palo, Leyte.
One of the party officials
told this writer that the party is also a consultative member of the Socialist
International. The latter "is a worldwide association represented in 105
countries by some 126 parties that share the aims and aspirations like that of
the PDSP, for their respective countries and for humankind," he said.
Meanwhile, there were around
60 participants, mostly municipal mayors and councilors from the towns of
Almagro, Tagapul-an, Sto. Niño, San Jorge, Gandara, Matuguinao, Pagsanghan,
Tarangnan, Sta. Margarita, all in the first district of Samar have took their
oath of alliance, after their (BOS), around 4 o'clock in the afternoon of
January 26.
Grey, whose being eyed as the
next provincial chairman of the party, first ran under the banner of the Liberal
Party in 2004, and won a mayoralty seat in San Jorge, Samar. In this forthcoming
synchronized local and national election, he decided to vacate the post,
endorsed his wife Nancy as his successor and contests a seat in the
congressional level.
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