GUIDE TO POLITICAL PARTIES
Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC)


Formed as a vehicle for Danding Cojuangco’s 1992 presidential bid and propelled by Cojuangco’s money and his political organization, the NPC is the second biggest party (with 55 congressmen) after Lakas in the 12th House.

The NPC has a talent for tactical coalitions. When Cojuangco lost in 1992, it entered into a short-lived coalition with the ruling Lakas party in the House. In 1998, it supported Estrada and so wound up with LAMMP, the administration coalition that ruled the House from 1998 to 2000. After Estrada fell in 2001, the NPC was again roped in, this time to the ruling People Power Coalition led by Lakas.

The NPC has been able to exert discipline within its ranks in part because of the patronage that Cojuangco can dispense. But its membership, which includes the scions of the country’s most conservative clans, also tends to think alike. Although it suffered defections, the NPC put up a good fight in the House to defend Estrada from impeachment in 2000. In 2003, the party mobilized its numbers to back the impeachment of Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr.

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