NO QUORUM IN DAGUPAN SP LAST SESSION

THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) ended its tumultuous three-year term without a quorum during its last session on June 24, with only five councilors present.

Those in attendance were Councilor Alfie Fernandez, as the presiding officer, and Councilors Librada Reyna and Alvin Coquia, all from the ruling majority bloc; and Councilors Dennis Canto and Marcelino Fernandez, chair of the Liga ng mga Barangay, both from the minority.

As the culminating session, it would have been the time for the graduating councilors to deliver their respective valedictory address and bid farewell to the people of Dagupan had there been a quorum.

Members of the majority bloc who skipped the session were Councilors Celia Lim, Marilou Fernandez, Irene Lim-Acosta and Redford Erfe-Mejia, who will no longer be returning to the SP on July 1.

On extended special privilege leave were reelected Vice Mayor Bryan Kua, and Councilors Michael Fernandez, Jeslito Seen, and Bradley Benavides, chair of the Sangguniang Kabataan Federation.

Kua told The PUNCH on June 20 that he and the minority councilors, allies of reelected Mayor Belen Fernandez, actually boycotted the few remaining sessions of the SP as an expression of disgust at the majority members’ attempt to pass inconsequential ordinances and resolutions.

The graduating councilors are Lim, who lost her bid for the mayorship, Marilou Fernandez, Alfie Fernandez, Erfe-Mejia, Acosta and Coquia, who all lost their reelection bid; and Councilor Canto, who has just completed the maximum three terms of office, and whose daughter Danee is a newly elected city councilor.

Former Mayor Brian Lim lost to VM Kua in the vice mayoralty post.  (Leonardo Micua) 

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