The Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod (HTL) political aggrupation will hold its convention today at the SMX Convention Center of the newly-opened SM Premiere in Lanang, this city.
The convention is expected to bring together over 1,300 members, among them its officers and founding members, party candidates, deputy mayors, political coordinators and barangay captains from the three political districts of Davao City.
Hugpong, as it is referred to for short, has been in existence as a political aggrupation since 2001 when then Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ran for mayor in the May 2001 elections against the incumbent mayor and the political organization Duterte himself founded in the preceding election.
Hugpong is considered a mass-based organization of the urban poor and indigenous residents which supported various candidates in the 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2012 elections.
The Commission on Elections’s second division recently granted the petition of Hugpong to formally become a local political party. The petition for registration and accreditation was filed on March 28, 2012 by the party’s Secretary General, lawyer J. Melchor Quitain.
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte chairs the party while Mayor Sara Duterte is party president. PR
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