Few days before
the filing of the CoC
By Mortz C.
Ortigoza
BOLINAO – As the
filing of the certificate of candidacy (CoC) for the gubernatorial race will be
next week, the option of the candidate for his vice governorship is
narrowed between former congressman Mark Cojuangco and former Abono Party List Robert
Raymund “Eskimo” Estrella, Jr, a politician here told reporters.
The source said
that Cojuangco’s willingness to join the fray in ingratiating the votes of the
almost two million electors in Pangasinan ensued recently when told that there
is a possibility for Fifth District Congressman Amado T. Espino, Jr. to slide
down and makes a comeback as governorship candidate with his son and namesake
the incumbent governor as his vice governorship tandem.
The older Espino,
according to the high official, will be pitted with Alaminos City Mayor Arthur
Celeste.
“Noong nadinig niya na tatakbo si Pogi (Governor
Espino, III) na vice governor na excited siya, gusto na niyang mag return bout
sila. “Ako na ang gawin ninyong vice governor,” the politician quoted Cojuangco”.
When Cojuangco
ran for the governorship in the May 2016 election he was trounced out by Espino
III with the latter getting 736,909 votes while the former settled for 513,897
votes.
Cojuangco learned a hard lesson on that
expensive poll where he allegedly spent hundreds of millions of pesos one year
before the poll on medical missions helping the poor around the gargantuan province.
The rumor for
the older Espino abandoning his one city and eight towns' district had been leaked last
week by the camp of former governor Victor Agbayani to this paper when Agbayani
told them that the solon was eyeing a comeback as governor.
This paper did not
pick up that information as it was skeptical to its political viability since a
congressional seat like in the Fifth District is prestigious and has a lot of
advantages to its occupant.
The politician
here said that the abandonment of the Fifth Congressional District could be a
wise strategical decision so the Espinos could efficiently use their limited campaign funds
and win the two major fronts they faces on the governorship of the almost two
million voters’ province and the eight towns' Second District.
Espino’s another son Bugallon Mayor Jumel
Espino is believed to run versus a formidable opponent in exiting Board Member
Raul Sison, a former rabid ally of the family, who defected recently to the
camp of Celeste.
The one who
would mostly benefit if this re-positioning happens will be Binalonan Mayor Ramon
“Monmon” Guico who was hell bent to challenge reelectionist Congressman Espino
after the former first declared his intention last August 26 to this paper.
The camp of
Guico said earlier that the young mayor is determined to go for broke with a
campaign chest of two hundred million pesos or more in a trench war with the
incumbent solon.
“I want to tangle with the older Espino not the
younger one,” he confidently and excitedly told this paper
when asked that the duo could swap position for the May 13, 2019 polls.
Aside from being supported by his auntie House Speaker Gloria M. Arroyo, the family of
Guico is into a multi-billion pesos aeronautical college and chains of malls.
Gubernatorial
race in Pangasinan, third biggest in the country in the number of votes after the provinces of
Cebu and Cavite, could run to a billion of pesos or more for each candidates to
cough up as the 2016 election showed.
The politician
explained that Agbayani and exiting Six District Congresswoman Marlyn
Primicias-Agabas are no longer fair haired for the second highest elective
office in Pangasinan because the former governor chose to help Raul Sison in
the Second District while Primicias wanted to help her husband Tayug Mayor
Tyrone Agabas makes a run for a congressional seat.
“She wanted to rest after serving her district for
nine years,” the source cited.
He said that the
Celestes are compatible with her decision because she stayed with them and did
not join the Espinos as their vice governorship ticket.
Political
pundits in Pangasinan opined recently that in case Agabas went to Espino, Abono
Party-list Congressman Conrad Estrella will run as a regular bet for the Sixth
Congressional District and makes a run of her and her husband's monies.
Tyrone is considered by many people in the Eastern Pangasinan's district as outsider since he is originally from Abra Province.
Tyrone is considered by many people in the Eastern Pangasinan's district as outsider since he is originally from Abra Province.
The Six District used to be the political “encomienda” of the illustrious Estrella clan since their grand patriarch Condring Estrella became governor of Pangasinan and later became the Agrarian Reform Minister of President Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s.
Earlier, a
supporter of Mayor Celeste told this paper that Agabas was being eyed to be the
vice governorship bet of their camp because she will complement the political
geography of the six congressional districts’ province as the mayor comes from
the First District while Agabas hailed and had a command votes of the people in
the Eastern Pangasinan’s district.
Eskimo Estrella, a six
years party list solon, and his family have their own share of command votes in
the ten towns’ district.
READ MY OTHER ARTICLE:
READ MY OTHER ARTICLE:
Toots Magabilin Orfinada Older Espino for Gov and younger Espino for Vice-Gov, wooo! that will be the day bro!..a kind of "push and pull"...whaddyathink? hahaha
ReplyDeleteMortz Ortigoza Pasarap ng pasarap ang re positioning and realignment (Raul Sison defection) as the filing of the CoCs near, sanamagan! Of course this blog leads the scoop teh he he he
Toots Magabilin Orfinada Mark Machiavelli Ortigoza yap bro... You keep on stirring some hornets nest,...hahaha
Mortz Ortigoza Toots Magabilin Orfinada matindi kasi ang mga sources, pati iyung gustong mag congressman dito na tumatawag teh he he he. Keep readin'!
Toots Magabilin Orfinada Mark Machiavelli Ortigoza i will bro...political intrigues are trendy and virally these days and you are at the center of it... Ill see you one of these days, not for anything else but your songs hahaha
Mortz Ortigoza Toots Magabilin Orfinada I aint want to be a good columnist, I wanna be a singer singing folk rocks with Toots Magabilin Orfinada, Peรฑamante Riรฑa Al, Virgil Sarmiento Maganes, Nicanor O. Melecio Mbm, and Jigs Seen
Toots Magabilin Orfinada Mark Machiavelli Ortigoza set natin hahaha
Mortz Ortigoza Toots Magabilin Orfinada oo, sila Vir . bring ko guitar ko
Mortz Ortigoza Toots Magabilin Orfinada oo, sila Vir . bring ko guitar ko
ReplyDeleteToots Magabilin Orfinada: Mark Machiavelli Ortigoza pm pm when at saan..
Karlo Marco Orduna: Game of thrones!!!๐๐๐
Mortz Ortigoza I like the term of Apo Doctor Karlo, intelligent readers like him and Toots Magabilin Orfinada made Mortz baby strives to make his news much better and more entertaining.
Untalan Mon: ๐คnkkhilo nkklula lakas ng dream team ah another test for the legend ATE Jr. new aka-Floyd Mayweather d unbeatable champ
ReplyDeleteChaning Tatum: Mortz Ortigoza political dynasty
Untalan Mon: preho lng cla
Chaning Tatum Untalan : Mon Celeste din ba ang for vice gov..
Silvestre A Rayos Jr.: Marakep tan ya combo, Celeste Tan Cojuangco
Silvestre A Rayos Jr.: They will be courting Guico, sponsor nia c GMA
Mortz Ortigoza: aggressive na si Guico umiikot sa District. very positive siya when I last talked to him.
Manage
Silvestre A Rayos Jr. :Unless maisipang tumakbo uli c Kimi Cojuangco, magkakalinawan na yan after filing of COC
Mortz Ortigoza: Silvestre A Rayos Jr. one probable candidate Mon Mon Guico saw na patakbuhin ni Cong. Espino si exiting Mayor Bobom Perez, pero kaya daw niya si Bobom.