THE 2022 election is fast approaching and we don’t have the luxury of time to procrastinate on our choices of officials to elect.
May 9, 2022 will be part of our history, which will witness the exercise of our right to suffrage. It is on us that we make the right to choose the officials who will run the country for six years for national positions and three years for the local posts.
We often make hasty and erroneous decisions in our choice of elective positions. After their terms, we normally blame ourselves for the underperforming officials and those who have performed badly. Well?
We still have about three months to evaluate thoroughly the platforms of government the six major contenders for president and the same number of vice presidential aspirants. I assume that by now, by virtue of their personal appearances and speeches, we can adequately gauge the right candidates we ought to vote.
Let us not be persuaded by the so-called surveys. For all we know, these have been initiated and commissioned by the moneyed candidates. On the contrary, let us pay attention to their track record of public service and their qualifications.
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On the local front, in Magalang, Mayor Romy Pecson bared his councilor slate along with his vice mayor aspirant, Koko Pangan Gonzales: Eller Pecson, Harry Zemel, Vanessa San Miguel, Arvy de la Cruz, Dong Pangan, Allan Poe Pineda, Roger Santos and J D Cruz.
Mayor Romy also cited the La Paz-Piano project which runs through the San Pedro II memorial park and aims to decongest traffic on the highway. It is a form of a by-pass road and he revealed that he even spent h8s own funds to compensate house owners which had to give way to the project at a cost of P1.5 million.
For this and other projects, Mayor Romy deserves another term/
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Now that the IATF and the DOH have relaxed travel quarantine restrictions removing the quarantine requirement for incoming travelers, Robert S. Paquia may consider pushing through his plan to spend his vacation here in the Philippines, specifically at Barangay San Francisco, Mabalacat City. How about it, supremo Robert?
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Congrats to SM's fair lady, Andrea Madlangbayan, a regional operations manager, who got married in civil ceremonies last week. I hope for your marital bliss, Andrea and thanks for being kind and accommodating to me. Wow!