The D Spot

Like the North Star, principles guide and provide directions to those who look upon it. Inflexible, principles do not bend for exigencies, the practical and the here and now.  Principles govern the future.  Ang Kapatiran Party may be strapped for cash, but it is not short on principles that guide their group.

Formed sometime in 2004 by Chairman Emeritus and Founder Reynaldo D. Pacheco, Ang Kapatiran Party (AKP) or The Alliance for the Common Good is a Comelec-registered national political party associated with the Roman Catholic Church.  The group, however, is open and has members coming from other denominations willing to adhere to their advocacies. The group made its political debut, so to speak, during the 2007 elections, fielding three candidates in the persons of former executive director of the Presidential Commission on the VFA Zosimo Jesus Paredes II, Gastroenterologist Dr. Martin Bautista and family law and taxation lawyer Adrian Sison (a fourth candidate, lawyer Mario Ongkiko dropped out because of diabetes and hypertension, on doctor’s orders). Despite the positive remarks from famous columnists about the personal merit and integrity of these candidates, their staunch adherence to a clear platform of government and a favourable endorsement from no less than the influential CBCP (no doubt because AKP’s platform of governance hews closely to Church teachings), none of AKP’s senatorial candidates won. JC De los Reyes is perhaps the group’s only local candidate who won an elective local post—as councillor in Subic.  And even that victory was not the sole work of AKP but shared with the Gordon clan to which De Los Reyes happens to belong.

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