Three more lawmakers from the Davao Region-based Hugpong ng Pagbabago party joined the Lakas-CMD party chaired by Vice President Sara Duterte, the party announced Tuesday.
These newly minted Lakas-CMD members from HNP include congressmen Isidro Ungab and Vincent Garcia of Davao City and Alan Dujali of Davao del Norte.
"I am happy and very much honored to join Lakas-CMD Party. I fervently share Lakas-CMD’s support for unity, peace and progress, and I am inspired to join them in their effort to take on the difficult challenge of steering our country towards economic recovery and working for improved welfare of the Filipino people," Ungab, who once served as chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations which scrutinizes the annual national budget, added in a separate statement.
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