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sLatest results of the local elections have shown that
One Cebu Party, established and headed by Governor Gwen Garcia to tie-up with Kampi of President Gloria Arroyo, had fielded 33 candidates for mayor and 34 for vice mayor.
Comelec list showed that there were 135 candidates for mayor and 120 for vice mayor vying for the posts in 47 towns and five component cities in the province.
One Cebu-Kampi had 20 mayoralty bets and 20 others for vice mayor expected to wield victories while its 13 bets for mayor and 14 for vice mayor lost. In the overall performance, the party went to post a 60 percent winning average.
The One Cebu-Kampi has an alliance with Alayon Party of First District Rep. Eduardo Gullas, and the Bakud Party of Fifth District Rep. Ramon Durano VI, both of which had fielded their own candidates.
Kampi-Alayon Party’s winners were three for mayor and two for vice mayor, while Bakud Party had seven for mayor and nine for vice mayor. If these are counted among the One Cebu-Kampi winning circle, then it could further boost its political dominance in the province.
Governor Garcia, who is also on her way to victory for reelection, thanked the Cebuanos for their full support to the candidates, under One
“It’s an overwhelming vote of confidence. It only shows that the Cebuanos are on our stand against Sugbuak,” Garcia said.
The governor also thanked the candidates who ran as independents but yet supported the anti-Sugbuak stand. She explained that she could not support their political bids because their opponents were running under her party.
The candidates who ran without opponents were Dalaguete Vice Mayor Ronald Allan Cesante (independent); Alegria Mayor Raul Guisadio and and Vice Mayor Gilberto Magallon (Kampi); Balamban Vice Mayor Ace Stefa Binghay (Kampi); Vice Mayor Ramon Durano Jr. (Bakud/Lakas-CMD); and Pilar Mayor and Vice mayor Jesus Fernandez Jr and Rommel Tajo (Bakud).
Aside from Vice Mayor Cesante, others who ran as independents and won over their opponents from other parties were Dalaguete Mayor Andrade Alcantara, Badian Vice Mayor Fructuoso Caballero, Madridejos Mayor Salvador dela Fuente and Vice Mayor Dorotheo Salazar, and Carmen Mayor Virginio Villamor.
Other winners were from Lakas-CMD Party with 10 mayors and 12 vice mayors, and from Lakas-Nationalist People’s Coalition with one mayor and one vice mayor.
The political scene in other towns were a family affair. In the second district were Boljoon’s Derama family; Santander Mayor Wilson Wenceslao and his mother Vice Mayor Marilyn Wenceslao; and Malabuyoc’s wife and husband team, Mayor Daisy Creus and Vice Mayor Lito Narciso Creus.
In the third district, there was Balamban’s father and son, Mayor Alex and Vice Mayor Ace Stefan Binghay; Aloguinsan’s wife and husband, Mayor Cynthia and Vice Mayor Augustus Moreno; Pinamungajan’s siblings, Mayor Geraldine and brother Jeffrey Yapha; Toledo City’s daughter and father tandem, Mayor Arlene Zambo and Vice Mayor Aurelio Espinosa; and Tuburan’s husband and wife, Mayor Constancio and Rose Marie Suezo.
In the fourth district, the Escario family dominated politics in Bantayan with Mayor Geralyn Escario-Canares and her nephew Dale Escario; Daanbantayan’s Mayor Maria Luisa Loot ran for the vice mayoralty while her son, Sun Shimura, won for mayor.
In the fifth district, Sogod has Mayor Thaddeus Durano and daughter, Vice Mayor Lissa Marie Durano; Danao City reelected the Duranos for its two top posts; and in San Francisco were Mayor Alfredo Arquillano Jr. for mayor and Allan Arquillano for vice mayor. — Garry B. Lao/RAE
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