BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
A four-cornered fight for
governor of Aklan is looming in the 2019 May mid-term elections.
Aklan governor Florencio Tumbokon
Miraflores will run anew under Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) against three-termer Kalibo mayor William Sucgang
Lachica of Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC).
Businessman Pablo Dela
Cruz Beltran and Engr. Felicisimo Yetyet Tanumtanum, Jr. will also seek the
gubernatorial post next year as independent candidates.
The candidates filed their
certificates of candidacy (COC) before the October 17 deadline set by the Commission
on Elections (Comelec).
Miraflores is seeking his
third and final term for governor. He served as Aklan governor
from 1995 to 2004, then as Aklan representative from 2004 to 2013. He won the Aklan gubernatorial
race in 2013, and was reelected in 2016.
Two independent candidates
– lawyer Axel Villaruel Gonzalez and former Banga mayor Antonio Tumaob Maming will
also challenge incumbent Aklan congressman Carlito Samson Marquez in the First
Legislative District.
Marquez filed his COC with
NPC. Gonzales, a resident of Linabuan Norte in Kalibo, is joining the political
race for the first time.
Maming, who transferred his
voter’s registration in Kalibo last year, earlier announced to run for mayor in
the capital town of Kalibo.
Former Makato mayor Ramon Salazar
Legaspi, Jr. of PDP-Laban and independent candidate Ray Amador Torres of Kalibo also run
against incumbent vice governor Reynaldo Mijares Quimpo of Nacionalista Party.
For the Second Legislative
District, NPC candidate Anita Victoria Ramos-Antonino, daughter of former
congressman Godofredo Ramos, will face former congressman Teodorico Tumbokon Haresco,
Jr. of Nacionalista Party.
Lawyer Leovegildo Terencio
Mationg of Partido Federal ng Pilipinas also filed his COC and Juan Antero Tumbokon, son of former assemblyman Jose Tumbokon as independent candidate.
Mationg ran but lost in
2016 election for vice governor against Quimpo.
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