Garcias Of One Cebu Sever Ties With Vice President Binay’s UNA

Cebu’s opposition One Cebu Party led by the Garcia family has broken its alliance with Vice President Jejomar Binay’s United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) Party.

Lawyer Winston Garcia, One Cebu Party president and Cebu gubernatorial candidate, officially announced the party’s decision to sever ties with UNA in a press conference Monday morning.

The announcement came a day after Binay and three otherpresidential candidates squared off in the second leg of thepresidential debates in Cebu Sunday night.

Garcia said the decision to sever ties with UNA was unanimous among One Cebu Party members.

Garcia said UNA has been neglecting to include them in their campaign sorties in Cebu province.

Garcia cited Binay’s recent campaign sorties in Cebu in which UNA did not inform nor invited the One Cebu Party.

Among them were UNAs public rally Monday night in Lapu-Lapu City and Binay’s sorties in Cebu on Thursday in the cities of Talisay and Carcar and the towns of Dalaguete and Argao in southern Cebu.

Garcia said UNA treated One Cebu Party with disrespect.

“One Cebu entered into an alliance with UNA in the belief that it will be a partnership of equals. UNA treated One Cebu like Imperial Manila treats the rest of the Philippines with disrespect,” Garcia read the party statement.

“Right from the outset, UNA regarded the alliance as nothing more than a marriage of convenience,” he said.

One Cebu Party forged an alliance with UNA only in February and declared its support for Binay.

Among the Garcias in One Cebu are former Cebu Governor Pablo Garcia, incumbent Cebu third district Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia who is seeking reelection, and former congressman Pablo John Garcia who is seeking a House seat in Cebu’s newly-created seventh district. (PNA) JMC/EB/EDS