Paombong Mayor Donato Marcos |
MALOLOS
CITY—Paombong Mayor Donato Marcos, the president of the League of
Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) and 11 other including five other
mayoral candidates in Bulacan withdrew their candidacies.
Of
the 12 who formally withdrew, only three were substituted, according to the
Lawyer Elmo Duques, the provincial election supervisor in Bulacan.
The
candidates who withdrew their candidacies are Pancho Ordanes, an independent
candidates for the second congressional district of Bulacan, Lawyer Rustico De
Belen, an independent mayoral candidate in the mountain town of Donya Remedios
Trinidad (DRT).
Rolando
Flores and Pablo Milan, both independent candidates for the mayor in the town
of Baliwag and the city of Meycauayan, respectively; Reynaldo Santos, the
incumbent vice mayor of Hagonoy who filed his certificate of candidacy (COC)
last October for mayor under the Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban
(PDP-Laban) banner; and Carla Paula Galvez Tan, the incumbent mayor of San
Ildefonso town who earlier filed here COC with endorsement from the National
Unity Party (NUP).
Other
who withdrew their candidacies are candidates for the municipal councilor’s
position in their towns, namely Romeo Rodriguez (Independent, Baliwag), Modesto
Espinoza and Kris Blas Ople San Jose who filed files their COC in October in
Hagonoy, Leandro Celedonio of Pandi and Erlinda Sigua of the City of San Jose
Del Monte.
Duque
said that based on their records, Marcos is substitute by his wife Maryanne;
while Celedonio and Sigua who are both running under the Liberal Party banner
were substituted by Vicente Gatuz and Ananias Dicdican, respectively.
Duque
added that some of the candidates withdrew their candidacies as early as
October, but there are those that waited until the last two days like Marcos
and Santos.
Mayor Carla Paula Galvez-Tan |
But
on December 19, he filed his withdrawal and is substituted by his wife.
Sources
said that Marcos’ withdrawal from the race in due to the fact that he was
offered a post in the Department of Interior and Local Government.
Marcos
was elected as mayor of Paombong in 2007, after serving the remainder of the
term of the late Mayor Dominador Gonzales who died in 2005.
He
was elected as president of the LMP Bulacan in 2007 and 2010; and last year, he
was elected as president of the LMP national directorate.
As
this developed, De Belen said that his withdrawal from mayoral in DRT is due to
loss of interest and concern to continue his private law practice. He served as head of the Bulacan Environment
and Natural Resources Office from 2010 until his resignation last October.
In
Hagonoy town, sources said that Vice Mayor Santos’ withdrawal from the mayoral
race is due to financial constraints, but his close friends said that the vice
mayor would like to focus his attention to his family. (Dino Balabo)
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