Partido Reporma loses key Bohol officials to Lacson

Presidential aspirant Panfilo “Ping” Lacson.

Partido Reporma lost its key officials in Bohol province as they chose to stand by now-independent presidential aspirant Panfilo “Ping” Lacson.

This was after the party shifted its support to Vice President Leni Robredo.

The pro-Lacson group filed their irrevocable resignations from the party Saturday, even as they reiterated their “strong and continued commitment and unequivocal support” to Lacson’s candidacy.

“From the very beginning, the support that we throw behind SENATOR LACSON was born out of pure volunteerism and not for any other personal considerations. We agreed among ourselves to voluntarily offer our time, money and effort in support of him because we believe that he is the only candidate who has the competence, experience, courage and strength to address the very serious crisis that our country is facing today due to the COVID-19 pandemic, corruption, unemployment, ballooning debt and bullying by China in our exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea,” they said in their manifesto.

Signing the statement were Jagna Mayor Joseph Rañola and former provincial police chief Edgardo Ingking, who acted as the party’s co-chairmen in Bohol.

Also among the signatories were Joseph Sevilla, Eduardo Aranay, and Emmanuel Solomon Duites, coordinators for the first, second and third districts, respectively.