Actress Niña is Shoo-In for LMP Presidency – Mayor Sagles

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

AGUILAR, Pangasinan – The mayor of this rustic town said that after Bayambang mayorship candidate Mary Claire “Niña” José-Quiambao became the elected chief executive there she will be a shoo-in for the presidency of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP).

“She got the personality and she and her billionaire husband (outgoing Bayambang Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao) got the money and other resources,” Mayor Roldan Sagles told this newspaper about the sultry movie and television actress. 

This opinion was after Sagles officiated a mass wedding in his central Pangasinan town.

POPULAR Bayambang, Pangasinan mayorship candidate Mary Claire “Niña” José-Quiambao (left photo and clockwise) and her husband exiting Bayambang Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao and Aguilar reelective Mayor Roldan “Boyet” Sagles. 

 LMP - is a formal organization of all the municipalities in the Philippines. Presently, sixty-eight municipalities are part of this organization.

Sagles said that lady Quiambao has the opportune time because LMP President and Narvacan, Ilocos Sur Mayor Chavit Singson will be exiting after the May 9, 2022 elected chief executives all over the country take their seat on noon of June 30, 2022.

Singson ran unopposed in the November 2019 poll held at the New World Hotel in Makati City. He replaced Mayor Maria Fe Brondial of Socorro, Oriental Mindoro. 

Singson said among his priority projects as top honcho of the towns is free WiFi in all municipalities across the country.

In case Quiambao became LMP President her position can be equated to that of a national elective official.

This newspaper columnist’s Arnel Montemayor collaborated Sagles observation when he cited that many of the forty-four town mayors of the humongous Pangasinan province will vote for her as the president of the LMP – Pangasinan Chapter. Being an LMP President in the province is a sine qua non for the presidency of the national LMP.

The present LMP –Pangasinan Chapter President is Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil. Bataoil, a former Congressman and General, defeated in a neck and neck contest Mangaldan Mayor Marilyn Lambino. Lambino is the wife of Presidential Adviser for Northern Luzon and Cagayan Special Economic Zone (CEZA) Administrator and Secretary Raul Lambino and the mother of Pangasinan Vice Governor Mark Lambino.

It was a highly politicized election where the Lambinos were perceived to be pitted against the power and influence of Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino, III and his father and namesake the former governor.

The creation and purpose of the LMP is mandated by Section 496 of the Republic Act 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, as amended, which states:

There shall be an organization of all municipalities to be known as league of municipalities for the primary purpose of ventilating, articulating and crystallizing issues affecting municipal government administration, and securing, through proper and legal means, solutions thereto.

The league, according to the law, is funded by contributions of its member local government units and/or by any fund raising activity that they organize. These funds shall be deposited to the treasurer as trust funds and is subjected to pertinent accounting and auditing rules. Chapter funds are considered separated and distinct from national funds.

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