LP open its doors to Alayon's "outcast"

CEBU, Philippines – The local Liberal Party leadership expects Talisay City Councilor Valeriano Ylanan to join the LP anytime given that his party mates are reportedly shunning him.

LP Cebu vice chairman Vice-Governor Gregorio Sanchez Jr. said word has reached him that Ylanan who belongs to local administration party Alayon has indicated to join the LP.

Sanchez said the party would welcome any public official who wish to join on condition that he adheres to the party's principles.

If Ylanan joins the party, the LP will have two allies in Talisay City, the other one being Councilor Romeo Villarante.

Ylanan in his privilege speech during the council's regular session Tuesday called himself a "victim" of a political bloodshed designed by his own party which started on the day when he won in the elections.

His being with the administration party is only in name, as his own party later on alienated him, giving him no committee chairmanship unlike the rest of his party-mates who got two each and no privilege to endorse 20 workers to the city hall under his name, which each administration official is entitled to, he said.

On top of that, the furniture and fixtures in his office including the telephone were removed, before he occupied it.

"It is apropos in flatly speaking that my inherent rights and privileges being a legitimate and bona fide member of Alayon Party is deprived, baselessly," he said.

Ylanan had called on Vice Mayor and presiding officer Alan Bucao, being the "father" of the team, to intervene on this issue.

But Bucao already said that he can do nothing about it, as it was the party's decision.

Bucao said Ylanan could have done something to deserve the party's treatment. As to what he had done, Bucao refused to elaborate.

Bucao also said it is Ylanan who has distanced himself from the team from the very start. (FREEMAN)