The Alliance for the Common Good or Ang Kapatiran Party (AKP) is a Comelec-registered national political party that stands on a platform with clear and specific policy objectives all aimed at enhancing the common good, promoting the politics of virtue and the politics of duty. This pro-God, pro-life platform is an antidote to the traditional personality-based parties that have dominated and debased Philippine politics for decades.

Ang Kapatiran will focus more on moral principles than political expediency, more on the needs of the poor and the vulnerable than the interests of the rich and the powerful, more on the pursuit of the common good than the demands of special interests, and more on the culture of life than the culture of death.

What makes Ang Kapatiran different from the other political parties is that it has a platform with clear, specific policy objectives and all its national and local candidates are committed to support the Party's platform. With a musical score under the title "common good," its candidates will be like members of an orchestra playing harmoniously and producing a perfect symphony. Not a single discordant note shall be allowed.

The Politics of Virtue

Ang Kapatiran will introduce the "politics of virtue." The cultivation of virtue makes individuals happy, wise, courageous, competent. The result is a good person, a responsible citizen and parent, a trusted leader. Without a virtuous people, society cannot function well. And without a virtuous society, individuals cannot realize their own or the common good. This is what the politics of virtue is all about.

The Politics of Duty

What has destroyed our political culture has been an over-insistence on rights at the expense of responsibilities. If everyone will do his/her duty there will be no occasion for anyone to claim one's right. Ang Kapatiran will lead in reviving the idea that small sacrifices by individuals can create benefits for all. It is well to remember "that men individually are responsible for what they make of themselves but collectively they are responsible for the world in which they live."

Ang Kapatiran believes that "the future will be different if we make the present different." Clearly, Ang Kapatiran is a viable alternative.

History

The party was founded by Reynaldo "Nandy" Pacheco in 2004 and was accredited as a national political by the Commission on Elections that same year. It participated in the 2007 and 2010 elections, fielding candidates for local and national positions.

In the 2007 general elections, the AKP fielded 30 candidates, including three senators. Only John Carlos de los Reyes won as a councilor in Olongapo City. In 2010, the party fielded 59 candidates, including John Carlos de los Reyes for President, Atty. Dominador Chipeco for Vice-President, and seven senators.