The formal signing of alliance agreement is set on Wednesday at
Tacloban City Convention Center to be attended by Mayor Sara, other Hugpong ng
Pagbabago-supported senatorial candidates, and Tingog nominees along with the
party’s Chairman Emeritus former Leyte First District Representative and
Lakas-CMD President Ferdinand Martin Romualdez.
Over 5, 000 guests composed mostly of local chief executives and
sectoral organizations around Eastern Visayas are expected to witness the
signing of the alliance agreement.
“We will be ignored no more. We will be alone no more. We will
stand shoulder-to-shoulder with partners such as Hugpong ng Pagbabago who share
our cause. We will stand confident knowing we have a President who himself is a
champion of regional governance,” said Leyte 1st district Rep. Yedda Marie Romualdez,
the first nominee of Tingog.
“Our region’s population of four million comprises four percent of
our country’s population. But we receive a little more than one percent of the
national budget. We must wait no longer and ask others to speak for us. We need
to find our voice,” she added.
Philip Jude Acidre, the second nominee of Tingog, said that “the
vision of empowering the countryside is what binds together Tingog Sinirangan
and Hugpong ng Pagbabago.”
According to Acidre, the people of Eastern Visayas can no longer
remain as voiceless spectators while national policies are crafted and
implemented.
“For every man, woman or child – the opportunities that will make
real their dreams for a better life will finally be well within their reach –
quality education, affordable healthcare, and sustainable livelihoods. Standing
side by side, Tingog and Hugpong are committed to see that happen – in a
collective mandate of ‘thinking national, but acting regional,’” Acidre said.
“We are happy to know that in this fight we do not stand alone. We
stand with friends who have achieved what we yet aspire, with allies who share
our values and dreams. We are thankful for this partnership with Hugpong ng
Pagbabago for paving the way for this leadership towards change,” he added.
Meanwhile, Romualdez thanked the people of the First District of
Leyte for electing her to Congress, this after she accepted the nomination as
partylist nominee of Tingog.
In less than two years, the lady solon was instrumental in the
successful passage of the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act,
which provides for free college education in all state colleges and
universities and the Ease of Doing Business Act, which intends to help the
budding small and medium entrepreneurs.
“We passed on third reading the Alternative Learning System Bill,
which aims to strengthen the alternative learning system, the Expanded
Maternity Leave Bill, which enables new mothers to care for their newborn for
the first hundred days and recently, the Disaster Resilience Bill, which
provides for the creation of the Department of Disaster Resilience as the
country’s principal agency responsible for preparing and responding to natural
disasters and climate change,” she said.
The desire to be of help to an even wider community pushed her to
accept the partylist nomination, Romualdez said.
“At the heart of my first term in Congress is my strong advocacy
for a government that cares and listens – one that is committed to ensure a
better quality of life through a wider access to quality education, affordable
and available healthcare services and sustainable livelihood opportunities.
This we achieved through the many medical programs, livelihood projects and
college scholarships implemented in the first district of Leyte,” Romualdez
said.
She hoped that “the modest achievements we have realized here in
the First District of Leyte, could be true to every part of Samar, Eastern
Samar, Northern Samar, Leyte, Southern Leyte, and Biliran.”
Tingog, through a resolution promulgated on August 19, 2015, was
officially accredited by the Commission on Elections as a party-list
organization qualified to run under the party-list elections beginning with the
May 9, 2016 national and local Elections.
The other three nominees of Tingog are Jamie Go, Alexis Yu, and
Jenifer Padual.
Tingog was first founded on October 2, 2012 as Tingog Leytehon, a
provincial political party based in Leyte. (ROR/PNA)
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