Tesda chief mulls party switch

Joel Villanueva, the embattled chief of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) who is reportedly eyeing a Senate seat in next year’s elections, is now considering crossing over to other political parties, including the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).

Villanueva, said to be a close friend of President Benigno Aquino 3rd, on Monday said he is not closing his doors to the possibility of joining the senatorial slate of other political parties after he uncovered a plot to ease him out of the Cabinet and from the ruling party’s senatorial slate.