UNOPPOSED third district congressional candidate Francisco Benitez revealed Monday, April 1, that people in the district could expect more programs in education, infrastructure and health in his incoming administration.
Benitez, younger brother of incumbent Rep. Alfredo Benitez (3rd district, NegOcc), also said he will continue the projects of his brother in the district like the completion of the Bacolod-Silay Access Road to Victorias City.
“I will work on an education system, which is in tandem with the development achieved by the area, so that our professionals will have a better choice whether to stay in our province with a better employment or go out of the country,” Benitez said.
He said that he will also work out to increase the number of existing scholars in the district.
Representative Benitez, who is already graduating in June, leads the Visayan Bloc in Congress.
The younger Benitez said that he is also hoping to be a member of the committees presently chaired by his brother.
Benitez, who is the president of the Philippine Women’s University (PWU), is a neophyte in politics. He has been president of PWU since 2011.
PWU was founded by his great-grandmother Francisca Tirona Benitez.
Their mother, Betty, belonged to the Bantug family of Victorias City and their late father, Joly Benitez, was a technocrat known for mass housing projects during the Marcos era.
Benitez is an educator and scholar who led PWU out of a failed joint venture with STI in 2016. He is also president of the South Manila Educational Consortium and vice president of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities. (TDE)