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RAMON, Isabela – Three weeks before the midterm elections, residents in this province’s southwestern town still do not know who won the mayoral race in 2004.


Two of that year’s mayoral candidates are now holding office at the municipal building.


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                    [Title] => Isabela town’s real mayor finally known
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RAMON, Isabela – After nearly years of legal battle and with less than a month before the midterm elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) finally proclaimed the real winner in this town’s 2004 mayoral race. 


Raymond Espidol of the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats is expected to formally assume the mayoralty post here today after a Comelec-sanctioned municipal board of canvassers (MBOC) composed of Manila-based lawyers declared him the duly elected mayor of this town over the incumbent, Wilfredo Tabag.


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                    [Title] => NEW RE-CANVASSING ORDERED Comelec still determining real winner in 2004 mayoral race in Isabela town
                    [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela – With barely less than a month before the midterm elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) still has to determine the real winner in this town’s 2004 mayoral race.


In a 15-page en banc order dated April 12, the Comelec created a new municipal board of canvassers composed of Manila-based lawyers that would conduct the re-canvassing of 41 election returns in the 2004 mayoral race at the poll body’s main office in Intramuros, Manila tomorrow. 


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                    [Title] => Newly proclaimed Isabela  mayor assumes post
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RAMON, Isabela — Amid threats of another election protest, the newly proclaimed winning mayoral candidate in the 2004 elections here formally assumed the town’s highest post yesterday.


Wilfredo Tabag, of the Partido ng Demokratiking Pilipino Laban, formally assumed the mayoralty post following his proclamation last Friday as the winning candidate in the three-way mayoralty race in the 2004 elections.


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                    [Title] => Bagong halal na mayor ng Isabela, nanungkulan na
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RAMON, Isabela  – Makalipas  ang dalawang taong paghihintay simula noong 2004 eleksyon, pormal nang nanungkulan kahapon (July 17) ang bagong halal na alkalde ng bayan ng Ramon makaraang iproklama ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) batay sa isinagawang recount sa mga balota. 


Si Wilfredo Tabag ng Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban (PDP-Laban) na iprinoklama ng Comelec noong Biyernes (July 14) ay pormal nang umupo kahapon bilang bagong mayor at kinilalang panalo noong nakalipas na halalan laban sa kanyang katunggali na si Mayor Raymond Espidol.


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                    [Title] => Comelec starts re-canvassing of votes in Isabela town
                    [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela — With less than a year to go before next year’s midterm elections, this town’s mayoral row is far from over.


The Commission on Elections (Comelec) started the other day the re-canvassing of election returns in the May 2004 elections here to determine the real winner of the mayoral post. 


The provincial election registrar’s move was in compliance with an earlier order of the Supreme Court (SC), which upheld the Comelec en banc’s ruling last year voiding the proclamation of Raymond Espidol as the duly elected mayor.


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                    [Title] => SC finally unseats Isabela town mayor
                    [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela — The Supreme Court (SC) finally junked the motion filed by the lawyers of this town’s mayor seeking to overturn last year’s decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) voiding his proclamation in the 2004 elections. 


The SC decision dated Feb. 8 paved the way for Vice Mayor Mercy Vizcarra to finally take over the reins of the municipal leadership from Raymond Espidol yesterday, finally ending almost six months of political tension here.


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                    [Title] => Isabela town has 2 mayors
                    [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela — Amid the floods wreaking havoc in thousands of hectares of farmlands in the province, confusion now reigns in the Ramon municipal hall as to who is the real mayor. 


This, after Vice Mayor Mercy Vizcarra was installed as mayor yesterday by lawyer Michael Valdez, provincial election supervisor, enforcing the Dec. 1 writ of execution of the Aug. 30, 2004 resolution of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc nullifying the proclamation of Mayor Reymund Espidol.


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                    [Title] => This small Isabela town has 2 mayors
                    [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela — This small agricultural town, the home of the Magat Dam which is the biggest in Southeast Asia, has two mayors — one who signs vouchers, purchase and travel orders, memoranda and other documents, and the other, resolutions and ordinances passed by the municipal council.


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Two of that year’s mayoral candidates are now holding office at the municipal building.


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RAMON, Isabela – After nearly years of legal battle and with less than a month before the midterm elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) finally proclaimed the real winner in this town’s 2004 mayoral race. 


Raymond Espidol of the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats is expected to formally assume the mayoralty post here today after a Comelec-sanctioned municipal board of canvassers (MBOC) composed of Manila-based lawyers declared him the duly elected mayor of this town over the incumbent, Wilfredo Tabag.


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In a 15-page en banc order dated April 12, the Comelec created a new municipal board of canvassers composed of Manila-based lawyers that would conduct the re-canvassing of 41 election returns in the 2004 mayoral race at the poll body’s main office in Intramuros, Manila tomorrow. 


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RAMON, Isabela — Amid threats of another election protest, the newly proclaimed winning mayoral candidate in the 2004 elections here formally assumed the town’s highest post yesterday.


Wilfredo Tabag, of the Partido ng Demokratiking Pilipino Laban, formally assumed the mayoralty post following his proclamation last Friday as the winning candidate in the three-way mayoralty race in the 2004 elections.


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RAMON, Isabela  – Makalipas  ang dalawang taong paghihintay simula noong 2004 eleksyon, pormal nang nanungkulan kahapon (July 17) ang bagong halal na alkalde ng bayan ng Ramon makaraang iproklama ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) batay sa isinagawang recount sa mga balota. 


Si Wilfredo Tabag ng Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban (PDP-Laban) na iprinoklama ng Comelec noong Biyernes (July 14) ay pormal nang umupo kahapon bilang bagong mayor at kinilalang panalo noong nakalipas na halalan laban sa kanyang katunggali na si Mayor Raymond Espidol.


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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) started the other day the re-canvassing of election returns in the May 2004 elections here to determine the real winner of the mayoral post. 


The provincial election registrar’s move was in compliance with an earlier order of the Supreme Court (SC), which upheld the Comelec en banc’s ruling last year voiding the proclamation of Raymond Espidol as the duly elected mayor.


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The SC decision dated Feb. 8 paved the way for Vice Mayor Mercy Vizcarra to finally take over the reins of the municipal leadership from Raymond Espidol yesterday, finally ending almost six months of political tension here.


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This, after Vice Mayor Mercy Vizcarra was installed as mayor yesterday by lawyer Michael Valdez, provincial election supervisor, enforcing the Dec. 1 writ of execution of the Aug. 30, 2004 resolution of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc nullifying the proclamation of Mayor Reymund Espidol.


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