Four Cordillera provinces get new governors 05/23/2010

Four Cordillera provinces get new governors

05/23/2010 New governors were elected in four of the six provinces in the Cordillera during the first ever fully-automated synchronized national and local elections last May 10, with three seats left open by incumbents running for other posts. The Cordillera provinces with new governors are Kalinga, Apayao, Ifugao and Mountain Province with the last three provinces having open seats after their incumbents ran for other positions. In Kalinga, incumbent Gov. Floydelia Diasen of the administration Lakas-Kampi-CMD lost her bid for reelection to Jocel Baac of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), finishing third in a five-cornered fight behind Baac and Macario Duguiang of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) Diasen had won in 2007 in a sympathy vote after her husband, then Vice Gov. Rommel Diasen, was gunned down while campaigning for governor. In Congress, however, incumbent Kalinga Rep. Manuel Agyao (Lakas-Kampi-CMD) kept his post against sole rival, James Bearin of the Liberal Party (LP). In Apayao province, the open gubernatorial seat left by Gov. Elias Bulut Sr., who ran unopposed for mayor of Calanasan town under the Nacionalista Party (NP) was won by his son, incumbent Rep. Elias Bulut Jr., by a landslide over closest rival Ambaro Sagle of the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL).... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100523nat4.html

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