By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN CITY – One of
the reasons why a gubernatorial bet in the eastern part of Pangasinan lost
because other mayors did not distribute
to voters the monies he instructed them to do, a high elective official told
reporters.
As reaction to the news
article by this newspaper’s Guico Nixes Analogy Espino Can Beat Him, the official, who asked not to be named, said that
other chief executives of the local government units in the Fifth Congressional
District did not distribute the funds
given to them for the voters intended by defeated gubernatorial candidate
former congressman Mark O. Cojuangco in the May 9, 2016 election.
“Binulsa nila ang pera a week before the day of the
election,” he cited
Those mayors abused the
trust of the former solon by withholding his money for the voters while
allegedly accepting that of his rival and spent them to the electorates there,
he expounded.
“These mayors took the fund offered by the rival of
their benefactor and used them to give to the voters to assure his victory
while they pocket the money given to them by former congressman Mark”.
In that election Amado
I. Espino, III outpointed Cojuangco by garnering 129,
403 votes while the latter settled for 86,
458 votes in the district.
Espino won the general election in the 44 towns three cities' province.
Espino won the general election in the 44 towns three cities' province.
The eight towns and one
city’s district has 324,319 voters (November 2018 Comelec data) making her third in the most number of voters in the six
districts' Pangasinan Province.
It is composed of
Urdaneta City, the towns of Alcala, Bautista, Binalonan, Laoac, Pozzurobio,
Santo Tomas, Sison, and Villasis.
Urdaneta City has the
most numbers of voters with 87, 916 (Comelec
November 2018 data) followed
by Pozorrubio with 47, 659. Binalonan has 36, 717 voters only.
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