By Mortz C. Ortigoza
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| POWER HOUSE. Members of the Nationalist People’s Coalition and the Biskeg na Pangasinan pose for posterity with the party gubernatorial aspirant Mark Cojuangaco and his running mate Calasiao Mayor Mark Macanlalay distributed certificates of nomination and acceptance. LOEJAN ANUDON |
According to a mayor
in the Second District, who asked anonymity, the rally would be led by
gubernatorial aspirant Mark Cojuangco, his slate, and supporters like the five provincial congressmen and the almost 40 mayors in the 44 towns and three cities province.
The rally will be held
at 5 pm at this Capital Town’s plaza.
“Buong Pangasinan pupunta dito kasi may grand
proclamation. Iyan ang usapan namin two Sundays ago,” the mayor said.
A rule from the
Commission on Election says that the 45 days campaign period for the local
candidates commence from March 25 of this year.
All roads lead to this town, according to NPC’s vice governorship candidate Mark Roy Macanlalay.
All roads lead to this town, according to NPC’s vice governorship candidate Mark Roy Macanlalay.
He said his group and those of
gubernatorial aspirant Cojuangco will assemble in Urdaneta City at 1pm today
before they simultaneously motor to this Capital Town.
“May mga First District, iba ang route
ng Fifth District, Sixth District, Third District, Fourth District, and Second,” according to Macanlalay who is the mayor of the burgeoning Calasiao
town.
Another source said that the tandem of
governorship and vice governorship bets Amado Espino III and Ferdinand Calimlim
will have the same rally today at the Bay Walk Area of this town.
In October last year,
Alaminos City Mayor Art Celeste, a former congressman like Cojuangco, declared
in a party meeting that 35 incumbent mayors out of the 47 mayors and 75% of the
barangay officials in the 1,333 villages in the almost three million populated
Pangasinan supported the governorship and vice governorship candidacies of
Cojuangco and Macanlalay.
“So ano po ang ibig sabihin nito? Para po ito sa bayan natin. Kung
kasama po natin lahat ng kapitan, kasama po natin lahat ng barangay officials
majority hindi naman po lahat paano po tayo matatalo?” Celeste told an army
of candidates running for the provincial board, mayoralty, vice mayoralty, and
town council who were applauding his rousing speech at the well manicured rolling
lawn of the Cojuangcos in Barangay Labayug in Sison, Pangasinan.
First District
Congressman Jesus Celeste, the mayor’s older brother, told recently this paper
that he and nine out of 10 mayors in his District would trounce out the ticket
of gubernatorial candidate Amado Espino III, the son and namesake of the incumbent
governor, in favor of Cojuangco and his slate.
“We got all the mayors
here. The governor got all the has-been,” he said
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