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More
women leaders are holding elective posts as shown in the number
of winners in mayoralty race while the number of lady board
members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan and municipal vice-mayors
apparently remains the same after May 14, 2007 elections.
The
electorate has elected five provincial board members, 12 municipal
mayors, eight vice-mayors.
The
Provincial Board of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan has now six
lady board members, including Sangguniang Panlalawigan federated
president Frances Bobbith Cajes-Auza, daughter of incumbent
and reelected Rep. Roberto C. Cajes, second district.
Board
Member-elect neophyte Aster Piollo, a lawyer, is added to
the list. She represents third district along with re-elected
BM Ester Corazon J. Galbreath.
Inabanga
Mayor Josephine Socorro C. Jumamoy successfully made a comeback
representing second district. With Jumamoy are re-elected
BMs Amalia R. Tirol and Ma. Fe Camacho-Lejos.
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Still
on the grip of their respective turfs after the elections
are Cortes Mayor Apolinaria Balistoy; Buenavista Mayor
Elsa Tirol, Mayor Theresa Camacho, Getafe; Mayor Myrna
Naldoza-Schreuirs, Garcia-Hernandez and Mayor Henrietta
L. Gan, Valencia.
Neophytes
are Mayor-elect Victoria Chatto, mother of reelected
Rep. Edgar Chatto; Mayor-elect Tesalonica Boyboy of
Pres. Carlos P. Garcia; Mayor-elect Judith Cajes, wife
of Cajes, Trinidad; Mayor-elect Ma. Fe A. Piezas, Guindulman;
and Mayor-elect Rosemarie Lim-Imboy, wife of PCL president
Brigido Z. Imboy, Loay.
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Mayor-elect
Gregoria Pepito of Batuan and Mayor-elect Sylvia Adame, Dimiao,
who are not strangers in said posts, are also in the list.
Pepito was voted upon in 2001 elections but later on she was
dislodged for a question of residency while Adame already
served Dimiao for three terms until her husband took the reign
in 2004.
Newcomers
in the vice-mayoralty positions include Vice-Mayor-elect Marilyn
R. Uy of Baclayon; Vice-Mayor Necita Digaum, Catigbian; and
Vice-Mayor-elect Valerie Ann Torrefranca-Narona, daughter
of reelected Mayor Jimmy Torrefranca, Sagbayan; and Vice-Mayor
Ann Piquero Dy, Candijay.
Those
who were re-elected are Vice-Mayor Cecilia Rebusora; Vice-Mayor
Marivic Anana Golosino, Guindulman; and Vice-Mayor Ester Tabigue,
Mabini. Tranquilina Maniwang of Sikatuna also made a successful
comeback as vice-mayor-elect after serving as Mayor for three
terms. (Ric V. Obedencio)
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