Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino

Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (KAMPI)
Leader	Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
President	Ronaldo Puno
Chairperson	Tingting Cojuangco
Spokesperson	Emigdio Tanjuatco
Founded	1997
Dissolved	2009
Split from	Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino
Merged into	Lakas–CMD
Headquarters	7th Floor L.T.A. Building 118 Perea St. Legazpi St. Makati City, Philippines
Ideology	Populism Right-wing populism
Political position	Centre-right
International affiliation	None
Colours	Gold, White, Blue
Website
kampi.ph

The Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Partner of the Free Filipino, abbreviated KAMPI, Tagalog for "ally"), formerly the Kabalikat ng Mamamayang Pilipino (Partner of the Filipino Citizen), was a political party in the Philippines. It is the mother party of former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. In May 2009, Kampi has merged into the Lakas-CMD.

KAMPI was formed during the run up to the 1998 presidential elections as the vehicle for then Senator Arroyo's presidential campaign, after she defected from the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino, the party she had been with since she was first elected in 1995. Vicente Sotto III was picked to be her running mate. Before the filing of candidacies, she decided to be the running mate of then Lakas-NUCD-UMDP presidential hopeful Jose de Venecia. As a result, KAMPI coalesced with Lakas-NUCD-UMDP during the 1998 presidential elections.

There were no results available of the last elections for the House of Representatives, but according to the website of the House, the party holds 26 out of 235 seats (State of the Parties, June 2005). The party was at the 2004 elections member of the Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan sa Kinabukasan (K-4, Coalition of Truth and Experience for Tomorrow), the coalition that supported president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who won the 2004 presidential elections. Many legislators of the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats defected to Kampi.

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