NPC probes Alice Guo’s membership

MANILA, Philippines — The Nationalist People’s Coalition is looking into the origins of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, who ran and won as an independent candidate but later joined the party that recently entered into an alliance with President Marcos’ Partido Federal Pilipinas (PFP), NPC chairman and former Senate president Vicente Sotto III said yesterday.

Sotto clarified that after the controversy surrounding Guo, the NPC has started investigating the Bamban mayor.

“Mayor Guo is an NPC member. She joined the party after she won the 2022 elections,” Sotto said during the Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum.

Sotto asked Tarlac Gov. Susan Yap to look into Guo’s case.

“If there are party rules violations by a member, we will definitely decide on it, like Rep. Arny Teves,” he noted, referring to the expelled Negros lawmaker.

He noted that Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, one of the senators investigating Guo, is with the NPC.

“It doesn’t mean that even if she is our partymate, if she is really involved in POGO (Philippine offshore gaming operators) activities, human trafficking, then it will escalate in the party, like Teves, we will expel her,” Sotto said.

President Marcos’ PFP will ally with the NPC in preparation for the May 2025 midterm elections.

NPC’s alliance with PFP is a formalization of its longtime close alliance with Marcos, Sotto said.

“Right now, the NPC as a party is in alliance with the President. This merely formalizes the association. It is the realization of a continuing allegiance, of friendship,” he added.

More questions instead of answers were raised about the origins of Guo, who stood by her Filipino citizenship during yesterday’s Senate investigation on her alleged involvement in Philippine offshore gaming operators.

Guo attended the resumption of Sen. Risa Hontiveros’ investigation, which centered on how she was able to grow her piggery business and go into local politics despite issues raised about her birth.

Hontiveros presented during the hearing the contradicting details in Guo’s birth certificate and those of her two siblings Shiela and Seimen, which showed conflicting marriage dates of their parents, businessman Angelito Guo and Amelia.

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