Saturday, April 21, 2007

459 Candidates Vie For Aklan’s Local Posts

A total of 459 candidates are running for various positions in the May 14, ’07 polls. They have filed their Certificates of Candidacies (COCs) at the Provincial and Municipal COMELEC office, Kalibo, Aklan.
According to the COMELEC, two candidates are running for Representative of the Lone District of Aklan; four for Provincial Governor; two for Vice Governor and 22 for Sangguniang Panlalawigan Eastern and Western Districts.
Forty-five (45) candidates are running for mayor of Aklan’s 17 municipalities while 37 are running for vice mayor positions. For Sangguniang Bayan members, there are 347 candidates. There are five (5) vice mayoralty candidates running unopposed.
Four mayoralty candidates are spouses of incumbent three termer mayors. Altavas candidate Kathryne Refol is the wife of Mayor Denny Refol; Batan candidate Delfina Ramos is the wife of Mayor Herodutos Ramos; Numancia candidate Elvirita Templonuevo is the wife of Mayor Ernesto Templonuevo; and Buruanga candidate Quezon Labindao is the husband of Mayor Concepcion Labindao. These four mayoralty candidates are all running under the KAMPI party. Of the 45 mayoralty candidates, 13 are running under KAMPI.
Among Aklan candidates, 112 are running under the Nacionalista Party, KAMPI – 96; LAKAS-CMD – 85, Liberal Party – 55; PDP-Laban – 30; and 52 are independents.
Other candidates belong to the Partido Masang Pilipino, United Opposition (UNO), UNO-PDP Laban, UNO-NP and Lakas ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP).
Representative Florencio T. Miraflores is running under the KAMPI party while incumbent Governor Carlito S. Marquez is running under the LAKAS banner. His running mate, Vice Governor Ronquillo C. Tolentino is also running under LAKAS.
Anthony Acevedo, the other candidate for Congressman/Representative, is running under the PMP-PDP Laban party while the three other gubernatorial bets – like Kareen Ambito Galvan, is running under PMP; Maria Bettina Mobo Garcia, PDP-Laban, and Victoria Meñez Ramos, UNO.
Vice-gubernatorial candidate Gabrielle V. Calizo, who was Aklan’s Lone District Representative from 2001-2004, is running under the Nacionalista Party.
The province of Aklan has a total of 273,677 registered voters. The capital town, Kalibo has the most number of voters with 36,162 followed by Ibajay with 22,116 and New Washington, 21,891. /MP

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