March 01, 2021 ATTY. Jose C. Daluz III, former Cebu City councilor who headed the 2019 campaign that wrested City Hall from Tomas Osmeña s BOPK, has resigned from the city s ruling party Partido Barug.
In a one-page, three-paragraph letter to Vice Mayor Michael Rama as Barug president dated March 1, 2021, Daluz said his resignation was most appropriate as he was resolved to pursue the political party espoused by his late mother, Partido Panaghiusa.
Copies of the letter were furnished to Mayor Edgardo Labella and members of the City Council. A councilor confirmed Monday, March 1, to Bzzzzz having received the letter but withheld further comment until the Barug member could talk with colleagues in the party. Barug controls the Sanggunian.
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+ February 27, 2021 SINCE 2010, five lawyers have run for the presidency of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Cebu City and all of them won because their candidacies were uncontested.
The IBP Cebu City Chapter, which currently has more than 2,000 members, proclaimed its newly elected set of officers during a nationwide chapter elections on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. The officers will serve for two years.
The new president is lawyer Michelle Palmares, who had served the IBP Cebu City Board of Officers in various capacities for 21 years. She had no opponents in the election.
She will replace the current president, lawyer Regal Oliva, who also ran unopposed in 2019.