LOOK: Senatorial guess Floranda consults Nueva Ecija transport coops

Makabayan senatorial candidate Mody Floranda met with transport cooperatives, tricycle operators and drivers in Guimba, Nueva Ecija on February 18, 2025. (Photographs courtesy of Makabayan)

MANILA, Philippines — Makabayan senatorial candidate and Piston nationwide president Mody Floranda known as for a progressive transport business as he met with transport cooperatives in Guimba, Nueva Ecija as a part of his election marketing campaign.

Floranda stated the native transport cooperatives raised issues over the Public Utility Automobile Modernization Program, citing monetary burdens.

“P10,000 araw-araw ang binabayaran nila sa nag-iisang may-ari ng prangkisa ng ruta sa sistemang pensyon. Samantala, nakapatong pa dito ang P55,000 kada buwan na kailangan nilang bayaran kada fashionable unit,” Floranda stated in a press release on Wednesday.

(They pay P10,000 day by day to a single franchise proprietor below the pension system, on high of the P55,000 month-to-month payment for every fashionable unit.)

“Patunay ito na huwad at negosyo ang modernization program. Sapilitang inihulog sa kumunoy ng utang at dagdag-bayarin ang mga operator,” the senatorial candidate stated.

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(This proves that the modernization program is misleading and profit-driven. Operators are being compelled into debt and extra bills.)

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READ: Cooperatives and PUV modernization

Floranda additionally famous that tricycle operators and drivers in Guimba are combating fluctuating gas costs.

“Mabigat ang halos P70 per liter na presyo ng gasolina para sa mga tricycle drivers ng Guimba,” he famous.

(The practically P70 per liter value of gasoline is a heavy burden for tricycle drivers in Guimba.)

“Idagdag pa dito ang nalalapit na banta rin ng phaseout sa mga tricycles na isiningit sa loob ng Magna Carta for Tricycles,” he added.

(On high of this, there’s the looming menace of a tricycle phaseout, which was inserted into the Magna Carta for Tricycles.)

READ: Home OKs magna carta for tricycle sector

“Ang gusto lang naman natin ay sapat na kita sa araw-araw. Pero hinuhuthutan tayo ng mga malalaking negosyo at monopolyo. Monopolyo sa langis, at malalaking automobile producer ang nakikinabang,” Floranda defined.

(We solely desire a honest day by day earnings, however massive companies and monopolies are exploiting us. The oil monopoly and enormous automobile producers are those benefiting.)

Floranda, a long-time transport chief, stated his platform goals to handle the transport sector’s long-standing struggles via progressive, nationalist and mass-oriented insurance policies.

“Nakapaloob dito ang rehabilitasyon ng mga pampasadang sasakyan sa halip na phaseout, at pagre-regulate at pagsasabansa ng industriya ng langis,” he defined.

(This consists of rehabilitating public utility automobiles as an alternative of phasing them out, in addition to regulating and nationalizing the oil business.)