As we usually do in this blog, we are putting some of your comments here in the main page because we believe that they deserve to be read by more people. These comments are about the new governor of Kalinga. Thanks Queen Esther and TruBlue!
From Queen Esther: Let’s give Dr. Floydelia Diasen a chance to lead as Governor of Kalinga. She is a true blue e-kalinga, her mother being a pure blooded original. The “sympathy votes” as we call it that installed her to governorship is her chance to do public service to the whole Kalinga province. She is already honed for this kind of leadership. Being a nurse, an educator, a mayor’s wife for 9 years and vice-governor’s wife for 3 years, she did a lot of public service to the Kalingas, doing medical/dental/health/family planning outreaches to far-flung barangays. I’ve been with her in several of these endeavors, so I really know her personally. She is a quick thinker, has very good judgment and an excellent decision -maker. As a politician’s wife, she has stood alongside the late Vice Governor Rommel Diasen influencing him for good and guiding him in his leadership. As a teacher, she has trained/influenced a lot of college students to achieve their dreams. As a mother, she has extended her motherly love by adopting 2 more kids in spite of her own 6 kids. She finished her doctorate on Public Administration, and she came from a family of people involved in public service for 2 generations.
Something weird is going on with Blogger/Blogspot because it no longer allows changes in previous posts, thus we can no longer add updates to the provincial results. Because of this, we are putting the most recent results from the Cordilleras here in a common post. These updates are courtesy of the bibaknets-yahoogroup forwarded to us by one of its members.
Note: We will continue to update the results as soon as we get new data. In the meantime, you might want to share your thoughts on the lighter side of Cordillera politics.
UPDATE 4: Floydelia Diasen was officially proclaimed as the Governor-elect of Kalinga after she received 52,897 votes against Lawrence Wacnang’s 18,721 votes. Although the votes from Tinglayan have yet to be added to the provincial total, the COMELEC decided to proclaim Diasen because the remaining uncanvassed votes would not affect the results. The congressional race remains a toss-up between Manuel Agyao and James Bejarin and the Tinglayan votes will decide who between the two of them will be Kalinga’s next Congressman. Source: Inquirer. For municipal level results, visit Kalinga Tambayan.
It’s exactly two weeks before voters go to the polls so let’s do an election roundup.
For those of you who are from Baguio, you might want to check out the website of mayoralty candidate Leandro Yangot and his running mate Elmer Datuin here. Of course, you already know the websites of mayoralty candidate Peter Rey Bautista (here and here) and candidate for the City Council Jack Cariño (here) because we linked to them earlier.
