Party-list group AKAPIN or the Alyansa ng mga May Kapansanang Pinoy will formally launch its campaign in Oriental Negros today, a press release from the group said. AKAPIN is the party-list of persons with disabilities seeking representation for 8 million Filipino PWDs.

The group aims to have the first visually-impaired representative in Congress, (Ret.) Capt. Oscar Taleon, a former naval pilot who is totally blind. Other nominees are Dr. Teofilo de la Cruz from Mindanao, an orthopedically impaired physician, and Jonathan Capanas, the father of a visually-impaired child and Dean of the University of San Jose-Recolletos College of Law, the press release said.

AKAPIN will hold a press conference from 10 to 12 a.m. today at the La Cavitena Restaurant, at Silliman Avenue. Panelists will be Katrina Segundo, a PWD and former nominee of Pinoy May K partylist; Jonathan Capanas, the AKAPIN Visayas nominee, and Nonoy Concha, president of the Federation of PWD in Central Visayas, the press release added.*

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