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Political party in the Philippines
Lakas ng Bayan
Abbreviation
Laban
Founder
Ninoy Aquino
Founded
1978 (1978)
Dissolved
1986 (1986)
Split from
Liberal Nacionalista
Merged into
PDP–Laban
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Lakas ng Bayan (English: Power of the People), abbreviated as Laban, was a political party in the Philippines formed by Senator Ninoy Aquino for the 1978 Interim Batasang Pambansa regional elections. The party had 21 candidates for the Metro Manila area, all of whom lost, including Ninoy. The party's acronym (Laban) is a Filipino word meaning "fight".
After Aquino's exile to the United States, the party was managed by his brother-in-law, Peping Cojuangco
By 1984, the party had formed a coalition with the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino of Aquilino Pimentel Jr., himself a Laban party member. By 1986, the two parties were completely merged to form the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan party or PDP–Laban.
The name "Lakas ng Bayan" would eventually be reused in the 1987 Philippine legislative elections as the name of a coalition led by the United Nationalist Democratic Organization party of President Corazon C. Aquino and Vice President Salvador H. Laurel.[citation needed]
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