Popular Front hardly lacked leadership, and it lacked a program, even though one of its founders, Juan Sumulong, a former senator, with the membership of former president and general Emilio Aguinaldo and Philippine Independent Church head bishop Gregorio Aglipay.
Abad Santos challenged each other's right to enroll under the Popular Front banner.
Abad Santos accused Sumulong's faction members as members of the Democrata Nacional or Democrata party, or being its identical twin, and being nationalists but "tools of the capitalists," with the contrast of Abad Santos' Marxist stance.
The elections commission settled the dispute, by recognizing the both factions, with Sumulong and Abad Santos as legitimate leaders of the party.
[3] In the return of senate chamber in 1941, no one won in the slate, and in the lower house, only 2 seat got.