Cojuangco to Run Anew for Guv

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Arenas Eyes Too the Vice Guv’s Post

DAGUPAN CITY – Former Congressman Mark Cojuangco will file his candidacy for the gubernatorial race of Pangasinan this coming October, a mayor of the huge province said.

“Ikaw ang unang pinagsabihan ko nito mayor (You’re the first person that I confided on this development mayor),” the chief executive, who asked for anonymity, of the town told this newspaper when the confidant of Cojuangco told him recently.

The mayor said that he expects Cojuangco will meet with his supporters soon to map up their strategy for the May 13, 2019 poll.

MARQUEE MATCH - Former Congressman Mark Cojuangco
 and Fifth District Congressman Amado T. Espino, Jr.

Another source said that the former solon had learned a hard lesson when he lost the 2016 gubernatorial bout with his rival when he spent hundreds of millions of pesos for the medical missions in various towns of the 44 towns and three cities’ province one year before the election.

“That spread and thinned out his electoral campaign fund few months before the election,” he cited.

He was then pitted with incumbent Pangasinan’s Governor Amado T. Espino, III.

A political observer said that in case Cojuangco, the son of Forbes 2000’s San Miguel Corporation Chairman Eduardo Cojuangco, Sr, attempts for the second time to conquer the Capitol he will either be matched with Fifth District Congressman Amado T. Espino, Jr. or his son and namesake the governor of Pangasinan.

The yonger Espino beat Cojuangco with a margin of 223,012 votes in the May 9, 2016. The former snared 736,909 votes while the latter settled for 513,897 votes.

Cojuangco was a nine years congressman of the Fifth Congressional District.
Moreover, some supporters of the former solon posted at social media Face Book his photos gracing the town fiesta of Rosales, Pangasinan last Tuesday. 

VICE GUV - Second District Representative Leopoldo Bataoil and Movie
and Television Review and Classification Board Chair Rachel Arenas.

Meanwhile, a former Pangasinan mayor said that former Third District Representative and Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) Chairperson Rachel Arenas will run in tandem with Cojuangco as vice gubernatorial bet.

If the information given by the former mayor will have credence, Arenas, the daughter of Third District Congresswoman Rosemarie “Baby” Arenas, will be pitted with exiting Second District Representative Leopoldo Bataoil. The former two – star police general has been telling some media men that he has a moist eye for the number two post of the gargantuan province.

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