MAXIMUM TOLERANCE. A fire truck is seen parked in the vicinity of the Capitol in Negros Oriental on Wednesday (June 29, 2022) as part of a security plan to ensure a smooth transition of government on Thursday. This came amid a "power struggle" as to who should sit as the next governor of Negros Oriental. (Photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Ano has ordered the regional office to ensure peace and order at the provincial Capitol on June 30 as newly elected and re-elected officials will assume their posts. The directive came as two gubernatorial candidates in the May 9 polls are locked in a "power struggle" as to who will be installed as the new provincial chief executive on Thursday. DILG-7 Regional Director Leocadio Trovela, in an interview with the Philippine News Agency, said Ano gave specific instructions on how to deal with the current dispute. "The guidance of Secretary Ano
Comelec-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor-designate lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano. (PNA file photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Negros Oriental does not have the authority to transfer the votes earned by a nuisance candidate, who has been disqualified from the elections to the legitimate poll bet. In an interview on Thursday, lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano, Comelec-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor, made the clarification amid complaints and verifications from some quarters on the defeat of incumbent Gov. Roel Degamo in the May 9 elections. Degamo (Nacionalista Party) lost to Bayawan City Mayor Pryde Henry Teves (Nationalist People's Coalition) by 19,546 votes. The incumbent chief executive earned 281,773 votes while the Bayawan mayor earned 301,319 votes, records at the provincial Comelec here showed. Degamo's camp, however, said the incumbent governor is the rightful winner if the votes of a nuisa
Negros Oriental Provincial Election Supervisor, lawyer Eddie Aba. (PNA file photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - A total of 45 candidates are vying for different elective posts in Negros Oriental for the May 9, 2022 polls. Records from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) provincial office showed that four are running for provincial governor; three for vice governor; six for Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) member of the 1st district; 18 for SP member of the 2nd district; and six for the 3rd district. Three winners are to be elected for the 1st and 3rd districts, respectively, while four slots in the SP are for the 2nd district, where this provincial capital is located. Meanwhile, for the House of Representatives, one is unopposed in the 1st district; two for the 2nd district; and five for the 3rd district. The four gubernatorial candidates are incumbent Governor Roel Ragay Degamo (Nacionalista Party); Gregg Gaudia Degamo (Independent); incumbent Vice Governor Edward Mark Macia
Negros Oriental Provincial Election Supervisor, lawyer Eddie Aba. (PNA file photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - A total of 45 candidates are vying for different elective posts in Negros Oriental for the May 9, 2022 polls. Records from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) provincial office showed that four are running for provincial governor; three for vice governor; six for Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) member of the 1st district; 18 for SP member of the 2nd district; and six for the 3rd district. Three winners are to be elected for the 1st and 3rd districts, respectively, while four slots in the SP are for the 2nd district, where this provincial capital is located. Meanwhile, for the House of Representatives, one is unopposed in the 1st district; two for the 2nd district; and five for the 3rd district. The four gubernatorial candidates are incumbent Governor Roel Ragay Degamo (Nacionalista Party); Gregg Gaudia Degamo (Independent); incumbent Vice Governor Edward Mark Macia
GUBERNATORIAL BID. Negros Oriental Vice Governor Edward Mark Macias shows his certificate of candidacy (COC) which he filed at the Commission on Elections provincial office in Dumaguete City on Friday (Oct. 8, 2021). He is eyeing the gubernatorial post in the May 9, 2022 polls. (Photo courtesy of Syril Repe) DUMAGUETE CITY - Negros Oriental Vice Governor Edward Mark Macias on Friday filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) for governor of the province. In an interview with the Philippine News Agency (PNA), Macias, who is running under the Liberal Party (LP), said he is in the same ticket as Rep. Jocelyn Limkaichong of the first district, who is the provincial LP chair. Macias said he did not join the lady solon and the other aspirants in their team during their COC filing on Wednesday because he wanted to do it on the 88th birthday of his father, the late governor Emilio Macias II, on October 8. "This is my gift to him, to honor him for his dedication and commitment in serving Neg