Veterans Freedom Party

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The Veterans Freedom Party (www.veteransfreedomparty.org.ph) is a party-list in the Philippines. It is the electoral wing of the Veterans Federation of the Philippines .

In the 2004 elections for the House of Representatives the party-list got 340,759 votes (2.6785% of the nationwide vote)^[1] and one seat (Ernesto Gidaya).^[2] VFP was one of 5 party-lists said to have received presidential support in connection with the Garci tapes affair.^[3]

Gidaya died on December 4, 2006. Two former candidates of the party contested to replace him, Estrella Santos and Rodolfo Gutang. Gutang is the general secretary of the party.^[4]

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