Guico Denies He, Guv’s Bet Son Betrayed Urdaneta Mayor

 

CONG. CANDIDATE EXPOSES PARAYNO’S INCOMPETENCE

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

BAYAMBANG, Pangasinan – A congressional candidate vehemently denied that he and his governorship bet son betrayed Urdaneta City Mayor Julio “Rammy” Parayno, III that caused the mayor in deserting them in favor of their electoral rivals.

“Ito ang pangyayari: Pinag-dududahan kasi ni Mayor Parayno na pinapalaban daw namin si Mayor Bobom Perez. Kasi daw (kami) nagpapalaban sa kanya. Sabi ko papaano ko ipapalaban sa iyo si Bobom Perez e iyong CONA (Certificate of Nomination and Acceptance) ni Mayor Parayno galing sa akin, “disclosed by Binalonan Mayor and Lakas-CMD Chairman in Pangasinan Ramon “Monching” Guico, Jr.

He even issued the CONA not only to Parayno but to his vice mayor and his candidates to the city council.

“Ano ba baliw ba ako na magbibigasy ako ng CONA sa kanila tapos palabanan ko,” he stressed.

FIRES BACK. Pangasinan Fifth District Congressional Candidate Ramon "Monching" Guico, Jr. (left photo) fires back to the incompetence of Urdaneta City Mayor Rammy Parayno, III (top, right photo  after the latter absconded him and his governorship bet son Fifth District Rep. Ramon "Monmon" Guico, III by joining  the party of their political rivals headed by Pangasinan Governor Amado "Pogi" Espino, III.

The Urdaneta Mayor earlier smarted that he abandoned the Guicos because he heard the solon went to the house of the city’s former mayor Amadeo "Bobom" Gregorio Perez, IV to goad him to run against Parayno in the May 9, 2022 election.

“Matagal ko ng kinikimkim iyan at alam ko rin na nag-uusap at pumupunta pa mismo si Cong.Mon-mon sa bahay ng mga Perez at bakit pa nila ako pinalabanan kung talagang kaalyado nila ako?” Parayno said.

He used to be a party man and would not easily bolt to the other camp, he added.
“Hindi ko naman gagawin iyong babaligtad ako sa grupo dahil “ party man” at kaalyado nila ako”.

The older Guico said it was Perez who went to the abode of the congressman and told him and the mayor about the clamor of the people of Urdaneta City for him to challenge Parayno because of his incompetence.

“Tinanong ko sa kanya. Bakit ka lalaban in the first place wala kang line-up. In the second place kulang ka sa bala. Mahirap mangampanya sabi ko kung wala kang bala at saka wala kang line-up. Iyan ay sinabi ko sa kanya. Tao na ang nag-uudyok sa akin dahil maraming nagawang kapalpakan, sabi niya,” Guico quoted Perez.

Perez cited to him how Parayno constricted the national highway when the shoulders of the road he used as parking space for vehicles.

Guico did not believe that Parayno absconded him and his son by supporting anew the re-elective Pangasinan Governor Amado “Pogi” Espino, III could affect him and his son’s electoral stocks in the 90, 000 vote rich city of the Fifth Congressional District.

“Hindi. Kasi si Monmon maraming ng na establish na project sa Urdaneta. Marami siya nakuhang barangay officials doon. Actually ito ang sasabihin ko sa inyo. Actually ito ang na sense namin through our survey ano na iyong popularity ni Parayno downward na”.

He exposed that members of the Tricycle Operators and Drivers' Association (TODA) in the city turned sour to the 2019 mayorship election's candidate after Parayno breached on his promise to lower by fifty percent their penalty if apprehended violating the local traffic laws.

Print and radio reporters pose for posterity with Lakas –CMD Chairman in Pangasinan and congressional candidate Ramon “Monching” Guico, Jr. after Guico assailed in an interview Urdaneta City Mayor Rammy Parayno. Parayno earlier abandoned Guico and his governorship bet son and namesake because of feeling betrayed after he was informed that one of the Guicos persuaded Urdaneta City former mayor Amado “Bobom” Perez, IV to run against him in the 2022 election.

The Binalonan Mayor pointed also to the viral video in the social media of the abuses of Parayno’s market law and order enforcers to the vendors.

“Nakita ninyo siguro nag viral kung ano ang ginagawa ng mga tao niya sa mga tindera sa loob ng palengke sinisipa ang mga kuwan nila”

Guico and members of the Opposition in Pangasinan from the congressional, provincial, and mayoral elective officials converged recently at the Event Center here for their pledge of support to the presidential and vice presidential candidacies of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. and Sara Duterte, respectively.

The meeting was headed by Bayambang Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao- the major financier of the group dubbed as Aguila – who opposed the reelection of Governor Espino and his allies in the congressional, provincial, and municipal positions in the next year’s poll.

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Giant Rally Vs. P.5-B Loan Mars Sual

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

SUAL, Pangasinan -  A giant indignation rally participated recently by three thousand residents here after the application of a half-a –billion pesos’ loan of the the mayor and members of the legislature of this one of the country’s richest towns was approved by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP).

“Alam ninyo po at alam po nating lahat na ang pera na iyan ang walang patutunguhan. Pag iyan po ang ni release po ninyo. Ang kawawa po ay ang taong bayan ng Sual,” Leeward Caburao – the leader of the rally – articulated to the media the demonstrators’ opposition to the decision of the LBP about the irony of the P500 million debt. This despite the almost four hundred million budget this town derived from local and national taxes and appropriated them to its yearly budget.

P.5-BILLION LOAN. Three thousand residents in Sual, Pangasinan rallied against the administration of Mayor Liseldo Calugay and the Land Bank of the Philippines after the latter approved the half-a-billion pesos’ loan. The three thousand protesters who walked recently around the town with blaring placards with slogans like “Stop Corruption in Sual. Pondo lang sa Election” and the thirteen thousand signatories of a manifesto opposing the mammoth loan cried that the amount will prejudice the social services of the local government unit because major parts of its yearly revenues go to the amortization of the debt. (Photo is internet grabbed)

He questioned the national bank why it allowed the approval of the loan while it violated the two-third votes of the members of the law making body as required by law. He said it lacked one signatory to complete the necessary votes.

“Kulang ang istado nila sa mga pumirma dapat miyembro ng Sanggunian Bayan. Iyan po ang manipula talaga sa loob ng administrasyon. Nagtataka rin kami sa Land Bank kung ano meron bakit naaprubahan ang loan Land Bank?

A Civil Case has been filed at the Regional Trial Court early this year to stop the loan at the LBP.

Titled as Civil Case No. 19927, Declaration of Nullity of Ordinance No. 02-2021 Loan Agreement with Preliminary Injunction and Issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order.

It was filed by Plaintiff Michael G. Abata against Municipality of Sual represented by Mayor Liseldo Calugay, Vice Mayor Dioneil Caburao, Land Bank of the Philippines, et al.

Caburao – who runs for the election of the town council here - assailed the collusion of the LBP and the local government unit (LGU) headed by reelectionist Mayor Calugay for the timing of the loan as the May 9, 2022 election nears.

He explained the sinister intention behind the loan by the power-that-be here that could affect the funding for the social services of the people up to the next generation.

P.5-BILLION LOAN. Three thousand residents in Sual, Pangasinan rallied against the administration of Mayor Liseldo Calugay and the Land Bank of the Philippines after the latter approved the half-a-billion pesos’ loan. The three thousand protesters who walked recently around the town with blaring placards with slogans like “Stop Corruption in Sual. Pondo lang sa Election” and the thirteen thousand signatories of a manifesto opposing the mammoth loan cried that the amount will prejudice the social services of the local government unit because major parts of its yearly revenues go to the amortization of the debt. (Photo is internet grabbed)

Caburao lambasted the elective officials that they are using the parts of the loan for their reelection.

“Iyan po ang pinagtatakahan ng taong bayan ng Sual kung kailan malapit ang eleksiyon doon sila pumilit na maglabas ng pera o maka-pag loan. Dahil ito ay gagamitin po talaga nila sa sarili nilang pang interest sa election na kasalukuyan”.

He said that the Calugay Administration did not explain what infrastructure projects the proceed of the gargantuan debt would be used.

Aside from the 3,000 protesters carrying placards with slogan like “Stop corruption in Sual pondo lang sa election” that demonized the debt, Caburao told reporters that the bank had already released P100 million for the LGU’s coffer.

The yearly amortization of the mammoth loan will be shouldered by the revenues collected by this coastal town from local and national revenues.

He said that 13,000 residents here have signed already their opposition to the loan.

With a more or less 28,000 registered voters here, the 13, 000 signatories could affect the electoral stocks of the incumbent mayor and his allies in the Sanggunian Bayan (lawmaking body).

Mayor Calugay is pitted with former First District Congressman Jesus Salvador Celeste for the mayorship contest next year.

He said another mammoth rally is being hatched to be held in front of the Land Bank in Alaminos City.

The mayor of this city is the nephew of Celeste.

The 1,000 MW Sual Coal-fired Thermal Power Plant operated by San Miguel Corporation hosting town was ranked No. 2 richest in 2017 among the 1,488 municipalities in the Philippines.

The 2017 Annual Financial Report of the Commission on Audit said that Sual on that year had a P2.53 billion assets. But in 2019, Ceoworld.biz downgraded the town to become No. 4 with an asset of P2.989 billion. It was eclipsed there by Cainta, Rizal (P4.933-B), Limay, Bataan (4.065-B), and Mariveles, Bataan (3.842-B).

In 2020, Cmci.dti.gov.ph did not include the coastal town as what it titled the Top 10 richest municipalities in the Philippines.

It ranked the ten richest towns as based on the sum of their scores on the four pillars: Economic Dynamism, Government Efficiency, Infrastructure, and Resiliency. The top -10 municipalities were:

1)      Cainta, Rizal (55.03 Points); 2). Taytay, Rizal (51.06); 3) Baliwag, Bulacan (51.03); 4) San Mateo, Rizal (48.35); 5) Santa Maria, Bulacan (47.42); 6) Binangonan, Rizal  (46.98); 7). Silang, Cavite (46.23); 8) La Trinidad, Benguet (46.19; 9) Malay, Aklan (46.16); 10) Kalibo, Aklan (45.97).

Since the three years' term of Calugay started in 2019, critics have accused his administration of incompetence.

With the consummation of the half-a-billion pesos loan this town will further recede to her glorious rank as one of the richest towns in the Philippines because the significant part of its collected revenues like the P200 million a year business and property taxes from the power plant and the P150,000 national and local taxes will be used for the yearly amortization of the loan.

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Patuloy ang mga Programa ni Mayor Dooy sa Mapandan

Patuloy ang mga iba’t ibang programa ng butihing Mapandan Mayor Anthony “Dooy” Cerame Penuliar at ang Team Aguila na pinangungunahan ni governorship and vice governorship candidates Ramon “Monmon” Guico, III at Vice Governor Mark Lambino.

 “Patuloy po naming inilalapit sa inyo ang mga programang makatutulong sa ating mga mga kababayan. Nais ko rin po sanang ipaalala sa inyo lalo na sa mga for discharge sa mga pribadong hospital na kung nakalabas na po ang pasyente ay limitado na po ang tulong na maihatid po natin,” ani ni Mayor Dooy sa mga constituents niya.

Mapandan Mayor Anthony “Dooy” Cerame Penuliar

Nagpapasalamat din ang Alkalde sa  butihing Third District Congresswoman  Rosemarie Baby Arenas at Madam Rachel Arenas at sa Aksyon Man Ng Tersero Distrito na si Board Member Vici Ventanilla sa walang sawang pagtulong sa mga taga Mapandan.

Hinikayat ni Mayor Penuliar ang mga kababayan niya na makipag-ugnay lamang sa kanyang tangapan para sa kanilang mga medical assistance.

***

Ayon kay Northern Watch Newspaper’s columnist Arnel Montemayor alias Munting Isko: “Napakapalad ng bayan ng Mapandan sa liderato ni Mayor Anthony "Dooy"Penuliar, sapagkat mula noong siya ang naging mayor ay tinapos niya ang maraming proyekto na hindi natapos noong nakaraang administration tulad ng public market at farm to market roads. Limang barangay naman ang makikinabang sa inihandang proyekto na may halagang P37 million sa Brgy Primicias at karatig brgy para sa evacuation center. Hindi matatawaran ang kakaibang siste ng mayor sa kanyang pagiging mapagpakumbabang tao. Madaling kausap at walang pagkasayang aksyon para lutasin ang mga problema sa bayan kaya siya ay mahal na mahal ng kanyang mga kababayan".

Less Moneyed Mayorship Bet uses Bluff to Win Election

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

I quipped to Political Operator-1 of an incumbent rich town’s mayor that in the 2019 election Operator-2 told me he discouraged his patron’s mayorship candidate to proceed in the vote buying of the electorates at P800 each in the eve of the May 13, 2019 election.

“Sinabihan ko na si Mayor na huwag na ilabas ang P800 kasi ang kalaban namimili ng P2,000 per voter,” I quoted what Operator-2 disclosed to me to Operator -1-  a retired cop.

“Talaga bang nagpabaha si Mayor ninyo ng pera sa bayan ninyo?” I posed.

He said the losing mayor spent P5,000 each voter in the one month’s span before the voters cast their ballots in the precinct.

MASSIVE VOTE BUYING. The customary vote buying in the Philippines that runs now to thousands of pesos per gullible and vulnerable voter where the less intelligent but moneyed candidate wins against the financially deprived but brainy rival.

“Tinadtad (made installments) nila ang P5,000. Meron pa diyan ibinigay P2,000 kada botante. Mas maraming pera si ex- mayor kaysa kay mayor noong election,” he stressed to me in Tagalog.

When I bumped into him middle of this year, the losing mayor told me that they vote buy earlier because he and his father were afraid that his rival who had connection with the police provincial director could box in the corner his bagmen - who shell-out monies to voters as ingratiation for him and his family to win – in the eve of the election. 

 In Pangasinan province they called it “Pakurong” read in countless English words (Damn, just learned the Pangalatok, er, Pangasinan language is superior in the brevity game to English) as discreet shelling out of sums to the houses of voters or in a specific venue.

“Magkano ang bilihan ng boto sa bayan ninyo at kayo ay natalo?”.

“Dalawang libo isang linggo bago mag eleksyon,” he answered

“Bakit isang linggo bago mag eleksiyon. Dapat sa eve ng eleksyon kayo namumudmod ng pera?” I added.

His fear was reminiscent of a former Pangasinan PD  - a Colonel – who emphatically ordered his men to disable a city mayor and his bagmen not to buy votes that allow the other rival candidate to vote buy and win the election.

The aggressiveness of the PD, my source said on conditioned of anonymity, was a quid pro quo to the other rival that in case the patron candidate wins the cop get his share of the monthly jueteng (illegal number game) ingreso from the gambling lord to the city.

Bluffed by Menacing Looking Motorcycle Men

“Sabi ni ex-Mayor natakot daw sila kasama ang mga supporters nila dahil may mga umiikot sa mga bara-barangay na naka motor (motorcycles) naka black jacket. Sabi ni ex-Mayor mga goons daw ni Mayor iyon,” I told Operator -1.

The ex –cop laughed. He said they were not goons and hit men as the rival pictured them in the media.  It was a successful bluff that psyched out their wits.

“Mga motorcycle group iyon ni rentahan namin para bumu-o ng takot sa isip ng mga kalaban”.

Godzak and Godzilla! So the P2,000 per voter – where the ex - cop and company ferried those boxes of P1,000 bills in cigarette boxes from Lingayen in  the day before the election - and the imagined fear created by the incumbent mayor and his supporters have been a bluff, chutzpah, and sly that saw the long reign streaked of the ex-mayor and his father - another ex-mayor - halted in a competitive 2019 poll?

I remembered a city where each of the two mayorship candidate spent P333,659,200 average as I computed (Geez, to a post that gives P150, 000 monthly for three years) to buy the favor of the mostly greedy vote for sale voters probably in Region-1.

In the eve of the May 2019 election, sports utility vehicles (SUVs) roamed noisily the highways and streets of the city and the villages crowing their huge posters marked N.B.I pasted on the side of their car.

Was it an abbreviation of the National Bureau of Investigation or Na Bluff Ikaw?

I learned later it was the creation of the astute mayorship bet and his advisers composed of incumbent and retired generals to deter his rival – a multi-millionaire – in sowing the dough to the voters who have been queuing the gate of a university where the distribution of the P2,500 for each of the excited voters would ensue.

The bag men of the sly mayorship bet - who distributed P2,000 for each of the crowd in the wee hour escaped hair-thin from the jaw clamping looming defeat – told them to wait as they would pick up the sacks of monies – donated allegedly by Filipino Chinese traders who hated the then incumbent hizzoner - and would add another P1,000 to make the purchase of their “sacred” Right of Suffrage at P3,000.

Result: The incumbent mayor basking on the victory - backed up by a scientific poll that she would win in a closed contest -  lost by a nip and tuck votes.

It happened because voters would vote for the one who shelled out the highest amount – P3,000 versus P2,500.

  A seasoned mayor in the Third Congressional District told me years ago: Iyong mga tubo (pipe) ng gripo (faucet), kahoy (lumber) yero (galvanized iron sheets)  na pinamimigay  at mga medical mission na milyon year or years before the election, wala iyan. Pag nagbigay ang kalaban ng P700 kada botante sa gabi bago mag eleksiyon at ang rival P500 lang, talo ang P500 kahit na nag bigay siya noong mga gamit na sinabi ko at nag medical mission pa siya.

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Tatalunin ng Sual ang Alaminos sa Turismo – Boying

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

SUAL, Pangasinan – Dahil sa kanyang kabundukan, dagat, at talon tatalunin ng first class na ito ang Alaminos City ayon kay dating Congressman Jesus Salvador “Boying” Celeste

“Tatalunin po natin – huwag magagalit iyang mga taga Alaminos – dahil isisigurado ko po sa inyo tatalunin po natin ang siyudad ng Alaminos. Wala naman silang mga kabundukan. Mayroon lang sa Alamino City ay Hundred Islands. Parang Bolinao tinalo namin ang Alaminos dahil sa beaches. Malakas ang aking loob na sabihin na tatalunin natin ang Alaminos dahil ang magiging attraction po natin dito iyang kabundukan po  ninyo,” ayon sa tumatakbong pagka alkalde sa coastal town na ito sa Western Pangasinan habang kapanayam ang mga libong nagpapalakpakan na mga supporters na dumayo sa congressional office dito sa Barangay Poblacion.

Ani Celeste magmula ng dumating siya dito ay pinunduhan na ng kanyang nakakabatang kapatid na si First District Rep. Arnold “Noli” Celeste ng P50 million ang kalsada na magmula sa Barangay Caoayan papunta sa mga kabundukan.

Bird's eye view of Sual, Pangasinan is an internet grab.

“Nagtataka po kayo siguro bakit ko nagawa iyan hindi na po tayo nakaupo? Kapatid ko pa rin ang Congressman. Ako pa rin po ang pinapakinggan sa ngalan po ng development at puwede ko e suggest ang mga magandang plano dito sa ating distrito”.

Sa kanyang talumpati kamakailan sa congressional office dito sa mga supporters na nagmula pa sa ibat ibang barangays, walang pag alinlangang binanatan niya ang mga land grabbers na kumamkam ng daang ektaryang lupain sa mga kabundukan dito.

“Ang inyong kabundukan ay gaganda po iyan kaysa kukunin lang ng mga gahaman sa lupa. Ibig kung sabihin gahaman sa lupa kung hihigit ka na sa isang daang ektarya kukunin mo porke’t malakas ka sa gobyerno aanuhin mo ang pag-aari ng taga-Sual. Iyong mga malalaking may ari ng lupa diyan hindi naman po sila taga rito taga ibang lugar iyan po para sa akin iyan po ang para sa inyo para po iyan sa mga taong bayan ng Sual”.

Ani ng tumatakbong mayor ang mga atraksyon sa kabundukan at sa kanyang ipapatayong facilities ay dudumugin ng mga turista na manggagaling sa buong Pilipinas.

“Merong patent iyong Matico Falls kinausap ko ang may ari ng Matico Falls hindi mapunta iyan sa akin. Hindi ko gagawin iyan para gagawin kung private property. Balak kung gagawin natin na municipal resort. Ang bayan ng Sual ang magpapatakbo ang kita po niyan ay mapupunta sa bayan ninyo para maibalik natin sa dati. Kung hindi number two magiging number one”.

Experto si Celeste sa paghikayat sa mga maperang turista dahil nagawa niya iyan sa beach rich na bayan ng Bolinao kung saan ang kanyang siyam na taong pagiging punong ehekutibo ay nagpakita kung paano umasenso ang bayan dahil sa turismo.

“Expert po tayo diyan sa municipal resorts nagawa ko na po iyan. Sa bayan ng Bolinao ako po ang Ama ng Turismo nag Congressman ako binuksan ko po ang mga kalsada papuntang mga beaches natin. Iyan po ang nakita kung potential na gagawin nating pasilidad sa turismo. Magkakaroon na ng coastal road  magmula Dasol to Bolinao iyon ang magpapa-angat sa atin. Dahil ako po ang author po niyan ako pa ang nag umpisa niyan dahil hindi po natin ipapatalo itong bayan ninyo na mas maganda sa lahat sa ngalan ng turismo”.

Kamakailan binanatan ni Celeste si congressional candidate Oscar Orbos ng sabihin ng huli na siya ang orihinal na may idea sa coastal highways sa distrito.

Ang proyekto ayon sa kanya ay magbibigay ng isandaang trabaho sa Western Pangasinan.

“May proposal nga kami. Gaya gaya na lang siya. Basta kung ano na ang sinasabi ni Orbos. Noong kalakasan niya hindi niya ginawa pero noong nakita niya (na) nangyayari sa amin ngayon sasabihin niya siya na ang author, kalukuhan! “ani Celeste sa Northern Watch Newspaper.

Si Celeste at re-elective Mayor Liseldo “Dong” Calugay ay maglalaban sa May 9, 2022 election.

Si Calugay ay manok ni Governor Amado Espino, III at si Celeste naman ay kakampi ni governorship challenger Ramon Guico, III.

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Bitter Political Rivals Unite to Beat Malasiqui Mayor

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MALASIQUI, Pangasinan – former bitter and perennial electoral rival grudgingly merges with each other to trounce-out their bête noire the sitting mayor of this biggest populated town in Pangasinan province.

Former nine years' mayor and incumbent vice mayor Armando Domantay, Sr. said that it took Bayambang billionaire Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao to broker that he and former Liga ng mga Barangay President Alfie Soriano joined forces to beat Mayor Noel Anthony M. Geslani, Governor Amado Espino, III and his ticket to get the majority of the more or less 80, 000 voting populated town.

RIVALS MERGE. Perennial and bitter political rivals Malasiqui Vice Mayor Armando Domantay, Sr. (left photo clockwise) and former Liga ng Barangay President Alfie Soriano collaborated to beat their bête noire Mayor Noel Anthony Geslani in the May 9, 2022 election. Domantay and Soriano – a product of the deft brokerage of Bayambang Mayor Cezar T. Quiambao – run for the mayorship and vice mayorship, respectively, of the biggest town in Pangasinan Province.

The Vice Mayor did not imagine that someday he would be collaborating with a former perennial foe where they both crossed swords of decades of ugly and acrimonious skirmishes to control the political power here.

Domantay narrated that the clashes started with Soriano’s father Alfonso or Ponsing in the vice mayorship race in 1995, continued in 2007 when he beat Alfie for the mayorship, and his mother Fe in the 2010 mayorship derby.

“Alam na po ninyo hindi ko po maipagkaila na ang Domantay at Soriano ay dekadang ng naglalaban ngunit ito sigurong anduon ng magkaisa na ang naglalaban sa pulitika sa tawag ng kabutihan, kapayapaan, at kaunlaran ng bayang Malasiqui,” he articulated in Pilipino.

Indeed, politics makes strange bedfellows, to rephrase what William Shakespeare wrote on the play’s The Tempest.

Domantay stressed that after he defeated Alfie in the 2007 mayorship election with a lead votes of more than 2,000, he eclipsed with more or less 1,000 votes Fe Soriano in the mayorship contest in 2010.

“Pangatlong mayor (election) Nanay Fe na naman pero malayo na. Sa vice mayor ko naman si Nanay Fe 2013, 2016 si Alfie muli. 2019 wala na,” he said about his easy win against Fe in their rematch in the 2013 election.

In his reelection in the 2016 vice mayorship derby, he beat the young Soriano with a measly 32 votes.

Alfie went to the court and questioned the minuscule win allegedly reeking with anomaly against Domantay. The court however rejected the petition of Soriano.

“Ngunit dahil siguro kaunti ang lamang pero sa counting nanalo ako. Saka sa evidentiary protesta naman niya panalo na naman ako kaya dinismis na nila ang protesta niya. So malinis na ngayon, oo”.

Domantay said that before he was picked by the party of governorship candidate Ramon Guico, III, another candidate lobbied Guico and Quiambao to be the official mayoralty candidate.

Sources of Northern Watch Newspaper said it was perennial mayorship aspirant Jebong de Guzman.

“Noong nag ayos si Mayor Cezar Quiambao. Nag courtesy call ako sa kanya doon  sa Bayambang kasama ko si (Board Member) VC Ventanilla. Kinausap nila ako kung ano ang gusto ko. Tatakbo ba akong mayor? Nasabi ko kay Engineer Rosendo So may vice mayor ako o wala tatakbo akong mayor”.

At that time Soriano was adamant to tandem with Domantay but the influential intercession of Quiambao – a huge financial contributor to his political allies – made Soriano acquiesced to the collaboration.

“Ayaw sumama. Ngayon tinawagan ni Mayor Quiambao. Ako ang bahala. Ang mayor ko Domantay. “Okay okay Boss walang problema kung ako ang gusto niya”, “he quoted the retort of Alfie Soriano to Quiambao.

He said the people of Malasiqui – 143, 094 populated in the Philippines Statistics Authority's 2020 census – were happy to learn about the unification. For them, he continued, the bickering families chose the path of “aliguas”, “Kapayapaan”, and “Katahimikan” as they flex their muscle to expose the alleged corruption of the Geslani Administration on its six years’ reign.

“Sa katunayan ako nag endorse sa kanya noong naging mayor siya. Hindi ko masikmura ang kanyang ginagawa sa kanyang panunungkulang sa munisipyo,” Domantay criticism of his rival.

During the State of the Municipality Address (SOMA) of Quiambao middle of this year in Bayambang, Soriano could just envy how the Mayor implemented his zero tolerance to corruption.

“Hindi siya corrupt at very transparent. Inuuna ang kapakanan ng kanyang constituents at ang visions niya for Bayambang ay nakakalula. I wish we can do that too sa Malasiqui,” he reacted with insinuation probably how the Mayor of the biggest town in the 44 towns, three cities’ Pangasinan mismanages the coffer.

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MASIPAG SI DOOY

 

MASIPAG SI DOOY. Mayor Anthony "Dooy"Penuliar of Mapandan, Pangasinan is at his best while talking to his constituents. He runs for his second term bid for the mayoralty. He told the crowd here about his decision to team-up with the best public and social services given by the Alyansang Guico-Lambino (AGUILA) lead by governorship and vice governorship candidates Ramon “Monmon” Guico, III and Vice Governor Mark Lambino, respectively. Penuliar is pitted with a certain Dela Vega whom many kibitzers said has still lack of political experience. People of Mapandan lauds Penuliar in his mayorship stints because he performed well during the rampages of the African Swine Fever (ASF) and when the Corona Virus Disease-19’s pandemic reared its ugly heads in March 2020 and sows fear to people up to present. Penuliar is dubbed by his supporters in the vernacular as “Makuli (masipag )ya Mayor si Dooy”.