PLATFORM OF GOVERNMENT. Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia (2nd from left), who is seeking a third and final term, prepares to sign the platform of the government of his local coalition Grupo Progreso during a press conference at Business Inn on Thursday afternoon (March 24, 2022). He is joined by reelectionist Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran (left) and Dan Atayde, vying for Bacolod's lone congressional seat.(PNA photo by Nanette L. Guadalquiver) BACOLOD CITY - Mayor Evelio Leonardia has bared the list of programs that will be pursued by his coalition Grupo Progreso (GP) should they be elected to serve in the next three years as the local campaign for the May 9 elections kicked off on Friday. Ahead of a mass, caravan, and mini-rally at the Reclamation Area on the first day, the mayor, who is seeking a third and final term, led his party mates in the symbolic signing of their platform of government in rites held at the Business Inn on Thursday afternoon. "This is being given to t
GUNNING FOR LAST TERM. Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia, accompanied by his wife Elsa, files his certificate of candidacy for his third and last term before the Commission on Elections on Wednesday (Oct. 6, 2021). Leonardia, who heads the local coalition Grupo Progreso, is the official candidate of the Nacionalista Party for the mayoral race in the May 2022 elections.(Photo courtesy of Bacolod City PIO) BACOLOD CITY - Mayor Evelio Leonardia filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) for a third and final term on Wednesday this time, under the Villar-led Nacionalista Party (NP). "We are now officially part of the Nacionalista Party," Leonardia said in a press conference held before noon, after which his group heard a mass and submitted their COCs before the Commission on Elections. Leonardia, who heads the local coalition Grupo Progreso, has been a long-time member of the Nationalist's People Coalition (NPC) founded by his political backer, the late Ambassador Eduardo Coj