BANNERING their battlecry “#LabanNingBalen,” reelectionist City of San Fernando Mayor Edwin “EdSa” Santiago on Thursday, April 4, said that he and Team I Love San Fernando are all on full blast mode in their crusade to “fight for the city’s future” and continue good governance exemplified in the past two years.
“We are more motivated because we know that Fernandinos are with us in our crusade to make San Fernando a smart, green and livable and sustainable city that will be the center of the Pampanga megalopolis. This is not just our fight but the fight of every Fernandino to protect San Fernando’s future,” he said.
Good governance, he said, is the core of the team’s platform and centerpiece of advocacies in education, health, livelihood, investments and employment, culture and heritage, agriculture, environment, tourism and other basic services that have been sustained and improved in his administration.
“What we are doing now in this crusade to fight for the city is conducting multi-sectoral meetings among Fernandinos to further discuss their concerns and gather suggestions for the city’s development. We do not make promises. Rather, we listen to them so we can further improve the delivery of services and address their needs to make governance truly inclusive,” Santiago stressed.
Most of the programs and projects geared to make Fernandino lives more decent have been and are being covered and addressed by the City Government, he added, with depoliticized departments but empowered heads leading the way.
“Election is just for a day but our fight for the city’s and every Fernandino’s future is long term, sans politics. So Fernandinos will really have to make the best choice and here in San Fernando, they are mature and very intelligent in their choices. Alam nila kung sino ang subok na at kung sino ang magpapatuloy ng magandang simulain sa siyudad kung saan ang mga Fernandino ang nakinabang na walang bahid pulitika (They know who are the tried tested and those who can continue the very good initiatives that benefitted Fernandinos without the color of politics,” he said.
“Sa ating pamumuno, sinigurado at pag-iibayuhin pa natin ang ating layuning walang maiiwan ninuman sa siyudad, bata man o matanda (With our leadership, we assured and we will strengthen our goal that in the city, no one will be left behind, young and old),” Santiago said.
For his part reelectionist Vice-Mayor Jimmy Lazatin noted that the unity shown by incumbent Pampanga and San Fernando leaders is a positive sign that the administration is on the right track in providing a holistic development for the city.
“We must have a holistic approach for development, one that would benefit the province, the city down to the grassroots, and never for anybody’s personal gain alone,” Lazatin said.
With Santiago and Lazatin in Team I Love San Fernando are reelectionist councilors BJ Lagman, Reden Halili, Ruping Dumlao, Nelson Lingat, Harvey Quiwa, Tino Dizon, Ato Agustin, come backing councilor lawyer Raul Macalino, and councilorables incumbent village chiefs Ariel “Buboy” Carreon of San Felipe and Tina Lagman of Saguin. (JTD)