OFFICIALS and members of local political party Partido Abe Kapampangan have selected Vice Mayor Bryan Nepomuceno and Councilor Edgardo "Edu" Pamintuan Jr. as their candidates for mayor and vice mayor, respectively, for the May 13, 2019 elections.

Incumbent Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan Sr. will run for party-list congressman.

"Incumbent Vice Mayor Bryan Matthew Nepomuceno will be the party’s candidate for City Mayor while Councilor Edgardo “Edu” Pamintuan Jr. will be his running mate (vice mayor)," the group said in a statement released after its assembly held on September 20.

The party also selected 10 candidates for councilors including broadcaster Jose “Kuya Jay” Pelayo IV, CLAC president Thelma Indiongco, Jaycee Parker-Aguas, Raco del Rosario, barangay chairman Chris Cortez of Mining, Tabun barangay chairman Alma Mercado, and reelectionist councilors Amos Rivera, Joseph Ponce, Dan Lacson and Alfie Bonifacio.

The party also passed a resolution strongly recommending incumbent Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan, councilor Jericho Aguas and former PAK secretary general Danilo Consumido as the top 3 nominees of the party list Abe Kapampangan.

Also unanimously approved during the assembly attended by more than 800 delegates was a resolution formally adopting the official candidate of Kambilan party for the first congressional district of Pampanga.