Grand Alliance for Democracy

Grand Alliance for Democracy
FoundersJoseph Estrada
Juan Ponce Enrile
Founded1987
Dissolved1987
Merger ofLiberal (Kalaw wing)
Nacionalista (Cayetano wing)
Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas
Mindanao Alliance
Christian Social Democratic Party
KBL
Muslim Federal Party
UNIDO (Espina wing)
Split fromLakas ng Bayan
Merged intoKilusang Bagong Lipunan

The Grand Alliance for Democracy (GAD) was a political multi-party electoral alliance during the 1987 Philippine legislative election. The coalition opposed the policies of incumbent president Corazon Aquino and her Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN; People's Power) coalition, while severing ties with ousted president Ferdinand Marcos. The coalition consisted mostly of defectors from the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (New Society Movement), Marcos' political party, the Nacionalista Party and the United Nationalist Democratic Organization, the coalition that supported Aquino during the 1986 presidential election.

History

In the Senate election, LABAN won 22 of the 24 seats, with only San Juan mayor Joseph Estrada winning a seat outright for GAD; former Minister of Defense Juan Ponce Enrile, one of the leaders of the People Power Revolution that ousted Marcos, was eventually declared the winner of the last Senate seat, bringing the winning GAD candidates to two.[1] Estrada later defected to the Liberal Party, one of the parties making up LABAN, making Enrile the sole member of the minority bloc in the Senate.

Candidates running under the GAD name won two seats in the House of Representatives elections, although its member parties such as the Nacionalistas and the KBL won 4 and 11 seats, respectively. Candidates running under GAD-affiliated parties also won seats.

GAD broke up after the elections.

Congressional results

Congress of the Philippines
House of Representatives Senate
Year Seats won Result Year Seats won Ticket Result
1987[a]
16 / 214
Lakas ng Bayan plurality 1987
2 / 24
Grand Alliance for Democracy Lakas ng Bayan win 22/24 seats

Notelist

  1. ^ Only 1 is directly affiliated with GAD, as 4 seats are from Nacionalista while 11 seats are from KBL

See also

References

  1. ^ "Erap scoffs at story he was behind Villar's ouster". Philstar.com. November 20, 2008. Retrieved 2024-10-11.