Mindanao Daily News Caraga (May 21, 2013 Issue)

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NEWS CARAGA

Ecleos still dominate Dinagat politics VOL. 2, No. 309

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May 21, 2013

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By Vanessa Almeda, MindaNews

SAN JOSE, Dinagat Islands — Despite having one family member losing the race for Dinagat Islands’ lone congressional district, the Ecleo family has remained politically-dominant in this island province.

FESTIVE. Performers sing before the crowd during the Theater Float Parade Competition of the 26th Balanghai Festival in Butuan City last Sunday May 19, 2013. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas (Inset: A flock of white-winged terns locally known as kanaway frolic in the sand bar of Naked Island in General Luna town in Siargao Islands on May 17, 2013. MindaNews photo by Roel Catoto

Bukidnon losers blame PCOS machines

l - Calls for manual count- said they are manifesting prayer, which is to stop cor- machines. They said that ing of ballots—sour-grap- their strong protest against ruption in the province and the glitches that happened the results of the elections to restore the integrity and during the Election Day. ing says COMELEC By Iyren A. Dalipe

Malaybalay City -“Losing candidates and their supporters here who have gathered at the Capitol Grounds, over the weekend,

via PCOS machines for the Province of Bukidnon eleand this city. Various political parties from different districts in the entire province said they are united for the common

Celso Regencia is new Iligan City Mayor By Sony V. Sudaria

Iligan City -- Police Senior Superentendent, Celso Gumera. Regencia # 8 indenpendent was proclaimed new Mayor elected Iligan City, last May 14, 2013 with a gaining votes 43,586 in 176 precints all over the city again him closer rival. Atty. Joerich Cuevas City Board of Canvassers ViceChairman and Atty. Moli Bayo Ramirez certificate of canvass of votes and

Regencia

proclaim mayor of winning candidates for Iligan City Mayor and Vice Mayor elected Ruderic C. Marso obtained 41,110 votes the regencia | page 11

credibility of the COMELEC through manual counting of the ballots. They charged that the PCOS results were manipulated. The groups questioned the credibility of PCOS

Engr. Dante Cuevas who ran for Mayor in Sumilao Bukidnon said “Our municipality is the number 1 most corrupt municipality in the province that’s why I losers | page 11

‘Hybrid Economic Dispatch’ to solve Mindanao power crisis CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—If they will have their way, the so-called Mindanao Power Crisis will be a thing of the past and will forever be erased from the vocabulary of every Filipino, claimed a group of businessmen in Mindanao. The Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc. (Oro Chamber), together with other business groups in the southern Philippines, are strongly pushing for the institutionalization of what it called the Hybrid Economic Dispatch to forever solve the power crisis in Mindanao. The Hybrid Economic Dispatch called for a 24/7

Dinagat Town Mayor Gwendolyn Ecleo (Nacionalista Party) lost the Hous e r a c e to L ib e r a l Party’s Arlene Bag-ao. Tubajon and Loreto towns delivered votes for Bag-ao and other Liberal Party candidates, but the five other towns went for the Ecleos or their allies. In a rare intra-family matchup though, Gwen-

dolyn’s mother, Glenda B. Ecleo, won by a slim margin of 625 votes against her daughter and Bagao ally Geraldine “Jade” Ecleo, who had already conceded. “I am happy of course. To my (fellow) Dinagatnons, I am thankful for your help that’s why I won. I hope and pray to

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews) – Twelve of 26 Mindanao provinces elected members of the same families to both executive and legislative posts: three father and son teams, two brother and sister teams, three teams of brothers, a team of bother and two sisters, a wife and husband team; a team of cousins and a team of son and parents. Seven governors-elect will be serving as governor for the first time but they have served previously in other posts or are sons of governors “graduating” at the end of nine years on June 30. Of 18 who sought reelection, two are not returning

to the Capitol. But two former governors are returning to their post after spending three years in another elective post. Six others won even before the ballots were cast on May 13: they ran unopposed. Among the family teams elected, the Dimaporos of Lanao del Norte and the Plazas of Agusan del Sur -the longest -surviving political clans in Mindanao in half a century -- won again the gubernatorial post and their two congressional districts will again be represented by siblings in the case of the Plazas, and in Lanao del Norte, by parents. Governor Mohammad

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Mindanao provinces still elected family teams

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power | page 5

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