'BBM's Alyansa remains intact'

Camille Villar bolting coalition?

- CECILLE SUERTE FELIPE

Despite the viral photos on social media of Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar with Vice President Sara Duterte and the withdrawal of Sen. Imee Marcos from the administration slate, Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas is intact, campaign manager Toby Tiangco said.

Tiangco said the five-party Alyansa - composed of Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, Lakas-CMD, Nationalist People's Coalition, National Unity Party and Nacionalista Party - remains complete.

"Our candidates continue to receive overwhelming support both at the national and local level, and even from grassroots organizations.

This is something that we welcome and we are proud of because politics is about addition, not division. It is about building coalitions. And in any election, every bit of support counts," the Alyansa campaign manager said in a message to reporters.

Photos circulating on social media showed Villar wearing an orange tshirt her family's trademark political color posing alongside Duterte, who was dressed in a green polo shirt, in an undated photo shoot.

Another photo featured the younger Villar with her father, former Senate president Manny Villar, and the Vice President. All three had raised clenched fists, a signature gesture associated with the Vice President's father, former president Rodrigo Duterte.