Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Alviola retains Noreco 2 board seat By Victor L. Camion
DESPITE efforts to unseat Lenny Joy Alviola from the Negros Oriental II Electric Cooperative (Noreco 2) board of directors, she retains her seat as representative of District 4 power consumers.
Alviola won against challenger RJ Yee by 2,514 votes in Saturday's election, it was learned.
Alviola is the daughter of Bacong Mayor Lenin Alviola while Yee is the son of former Bacong mayor Rodolfo Yee.
Election results forwarded by Noreco 2 Institutional Services Department Manager Leovigildo Elmaco showed that Alviola received a total of 5,054 votes against Yee's 2,540 votes.
Yee was ahead of Alviola by 661 votes in Valencia but lost to her in Dauin by 1,600 votes.
Majority of power consumers in Bacong town, where Yee resides, favored the retention of Alviola, who got 2,187 votes against Yee's 620 votes in the area.
District 4 of Noreco 2 covers the towns of Bacong, Valencia, and Dauin.
Mayors Rodrigo Alanano of Dauin and Rodolfo Gonzalez Jr. of Valencia reportedly supported Yee's candidacy.
Alviola has served for two successive terms as board of director in District 4.
Provincial Legal Officer Erwin Vergara, meanwhile, accused the older Alviola of politicizing the Noreco 2 representation.
He said Valencia, the host town of geothermal energy in Negros Oriental, suffers from low voltage.
Valencia, Dauin, and even Bacong, where Alviola resides, frequently experience outages.
As host town, Valencia has more than a hundred million pesos share from the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) but the incumbent board of director failed to improve the facilities in the area.
The money could have been used to purchase new transformers, cables, and posts to improve power distribution within the area, said Vergara.
