“We have the governor; we have the lt. governor and some senators, congressmen, and cabinet members with the Covenant. This force is ready to work with the new leaders that would come in,” Thomas J. Camacho said.
Camacho, the current CNMI Council on Developmental Disabilities director, filed his candidacy on June 23.
Fellow Covenant member Sylvestre I. Iguel, who is also eyeing a House seat for the same precinct, said: “We have the ace against them because our governor is incumbent.”
“I have been exposed in political issue and people know who I am. I have proven myself in any other way that would give me an edge among others,” Iguel, a member of the Tanapag Action Group, an environmental advocacy group, told the Variety.
Camacho and Iguel said they aligned with the Covenant Party to pursue the economic and development agenda of the present administration.
“We are in the administration now, and we know now what exactly the roles of the party are,” Camacho said.
With their plans and programs already laid out, Camacho said they won’t go back and start learning how to fix the economy.
“It’s now the action time after the plan. I believe in the Covenant mission and I believe also in their platform. I think the Covenant has a group of different people getting together and just finding ways to work together as a team,” said Camacho.
For Iguel, he said he decided to run under the Covenant Pary because he believes “the governor is the only one who could make us afloat for the time being while the economy is recovering.”
