Aga Mulach to take oath as LP member Friday

Actor Aga Mulach. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippine—Actor Aga Mulach, who is eyeing a seat in Congress, is set to join President Benigno Aquino III’s  Liberal Party (LP), a party official said on  Thursday.

Mulach, according to LP secretary general Joseph Abaya, will take his oath  as new member  of the party  on Friday.

“He is scheduled to attend a Basic Liberalism and   Democracy  tomorrow afternoon. After which, we will take his oath as an LP member,” Abaya  said in a text message.

Mulach has been vocal about his  plan to represent the 4th district of Camarines Sur in the  House  of Representatives.

“We’ve discussed this. Charlene just said, ‘In case you decide to run, you have to promise to close your eyes and ears to what people will say against you.’ She said I should not show any sign of weakness and that, in times of self-doubt, I should go back to my desire to help people,”   the actor said  in an article  published last month  by the  Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Mulach said he has avoided joining politics for many years, but he recently came to a point when he “just wanted to do something different, to pay back the people who supported me all these years.”