By Emmanuel T.Erediano
Variety News Staff

THE Republican Party leadership is giving the Precinct 4 group of Luis Q. Kapileo a chance to submit their nominations for precinct officers.
Republican Party secretary Kimo Rosario, in a telephone interview, said the leadership still considers Kapileo and his group as Republicans.
Kapileo is insisting on the validity of their precinct club meeting on Jan. 4 when they were elected precinct club officers. That meeting also saw the nomination of Sylvestre Iguel and Barbara Yamada as the GOP House candidates for the precinct.
The precinct’s incumbent GOP House member is Candido B. Taman, who has said he will seek a second term.
The GOP leadership has said that the Jan. 4 meeting was invalid.
The party’s board of directors will gather tomorrow in preparation for the Friday meeting at 8 a.m. at Saipan Bowling Center.
The board will sit down with the new precinct leaders who will nominate the precinct club officers.
The board will orient the precinct leaders on the roles and responsibilities of the precinct clubs in accordance with the newly amended party bylaws whose legality has been questioned by Kapileo’s group.
Rosario said he has already informed Kapileo and his group about the orientation and told them that their choice for House candidates can still submit letters of intent to the party’s board.
The board has already named nine leaders of Precinct 4, who, as mandated by the amended bylaws, “shall elect their chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer to serve as Precinct club officers.”
On Friday, the precinct leaders will discuss the election of the precinct officers.
The newly elected secretaries of the clubs will then advise the party’s board about the precincts’ elections results in writing and “within seven days after the elections have been conducted.”