Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino

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Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino




Chairman	Joseph Estrada
President	Jinggoy Estrada
Titular head	Joseph Estrada
Secretary General	Joseph Victor Ejercito

Founded	1991

Political Ideology	Popularism
Political Position	Centre-Left
International Affiliation	None
Color(s)	Orange and Blue

Website	[1] [2]

See also	Politics of the Philippines Political parties Elections

For the party coalition, see Puwersa ng Masa.

The Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (Force of the Filipino Masses), formerly Partido ng Masang Pilipino (Party of the Filipino Masses) is a populist political party in the Philippines. It was the political party of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, which merged with other political parties to create Laban ng Makabayang Masang Pilipino or LAMMP (Struggle of the Patriotic Filipino Masses) in the 1998 Presidential Elections.

PMP was founded by Joseph Estrada when he launched a presidential campaign in 1991. On March 1992, the PMP made a coalition with Nationalist People's Coalition party when Estrada ran as Vice President under the ticket of business mogul Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco.

Today, PMP occupies three Senate seats as a member of the Minority floor, occupied by Estrada's wife, Luisa Ejercito Estrada, who won in 2001, his son, former San Juan suburb Mayor Jinggoy Estrada and long-time Estrada colleague veteran politician Juan Ponce Enrile, who both won in 2004.

There are no results available of the elections for the House of Representatives, but according to the website of the House, the party holds 2 out of 235 seats (state of the parties, june 2005). In the 14 May 2007 election, the party won 3 seats ^[1].

On January 18, 2008, Joseph Estrada's Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) caused full-page advertisement in Metro Manila newspapers, blaming EDSA 2 of having "inflicted a dent on Philippine democracy". It's featured clippings questioned the constitutionality of the revolution. The published featured clippings were taken from Time, New York Times, Straits Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Asia Times Online, The Economist, and International Herald Tribune. Supreme Court justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma opined that EDSA 2 violated the 1987 Constitution.^[2]

[edit] Notable Members

Joseph Estrada 13th Philippine President
Jinggoy Estrada Senator
Juan Ponce Enrile Senator
Joseph Victor Ejercito Mayor of San Juan
Aldrin San Pedro Mayor of Muntinlupa

[edit] References

v • d • e Political parties in the Philippines

TEAM Unity	Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino - Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino - Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats - Nationalist People's Coalition - Partido Demokratikong Sosyalista ng Pilipinas - Reporma-LM

Genuine Opposition	Aksyon Demokratiko - Kilusang Bagong Lipunan - Liberal Party - Nacionalista Party - Nationalist People's Coalition - Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan - Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino - United Opposition

Local/Unaffiliated parties	Ang Kapatiran - Kilusang Diwa ng Taguig - People's Reform Party - One Cebu - Partido Magdalo - Sarangani Reconciliation and Reformation Organization

Party list organizations	Akbayan Citizens' Action Party - Alagad - Alang sa Kalambu-an ug Kalinaw - Alliance for Barangay Concerns- Alliance of Volunteer Educators- Anak Mindanao- Anakpawis - Ang Laban ng Indiginong Filipino- An Waray - Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives - Bagong Alyansang Tagapagtaguyod na Adhikaing Sambayanan - Bayan Muna - Buhay Hayaan Yumabong - Citizen's Battle Against Corruption - Cooperative NATCCO Network Party- Gabriela Women's Party - Luzon Farmers Party - Partido ng Manggagawa - Sandigan ng Lakas at Demokrasya ng Sambayanan - Veterans Freedom Party

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