70%-30% in Favor of Sagles vs Soriano

AGUILAR, PANGASINAN MAYORALTY RACE

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

AGUILAR, Pangasinan – The mayoralty candidate of this third class will be getting 70% of the vote versus the opponent who is a present lawmaker here.

“70-30% sa Vil Sagles Team,” according to her exiting mayor-husband Roldan “Boyet” Sagles when interviewed by this newspaper.

The two-term mayor cited that four of the seven candidates for the lawmaking body’s Sangguniang Bayan (legislature) under his wife party’s National Unity Party will win.

MAYORALTY RIVALS of Aguilar, Pangasinan. Vil Sagles (left, photo) and Councilor Kristal Ballesteros-Soriano.

Eng. Angelina de Vera confidently butted in the interview that she will be the shoo-in as the No. 1 elected councilor after the May 9, election.

Eng. De Vera, a former college professor, was the long serving Municipal Engineer of this town.

Mayor Sagles said with the present ex-officio in the SB of the presidents of Liga ng mga Barangay and the Samahang Kabataan (SK) Federation allied with him and his wife, Vil Sagles will have a majority of six lawmakers that will pass ordinances and resolutions in her favor.

The mayor hit the present opposition majority in the SB lead by Councilor Kristal Ballesteros- Soriano – daughter of the former mayor here who is Vil’s mayoralty rival – of not approving the Resolution for the multi-million pesos’ projects like the P50 million second evacuation center given by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) in this rustic town.

“Resolution lang ang kulang doon.  Dadami ang project pag makasama iyang PAGCOR na iyan alam mo susunod palengke PAGCOR din. P50 million din”.

The first evacuation center given by the PAGCOR here cost P36 million.

Sagles – who undergoes medical treatment – would be an adviser to his spouse how to run the local government unit.

This town has 29,400 registered voters.

The projects procured or created by Mayor Sagles in his almost six years’ stint were new dump truck, new firetruck, new ambulance, new municipal warehouse, solar street lights, P36 million evacuation center in Barangay Buer, newly designed plaza, more farm- to- market roads, Corona Virus Disease-19 building, or distribution late this year of 16 Mitsubishi utility vans to each of the sixteen barangays.

Before his term ends at noon of June 30 this year, Sagles cited the following projects in the pipeline he prepares to implement in the first half of this year: Solar lights in the stretches of the national highway that cover various villages here, the P5 million oval at Mapita Economic Park, another police car, and another fire truck to be funded by the coffer of the local government unit.