Kapitan BK subs for Alfie in VM race
IT’S final, Liberal Party (LP) vice mayoralty candidate, Councilor Alfie Fernandez in Dagupan City withdrew his certificate of candidacy (COC) before noon of Dec. 10 and was immediately substituted by Pogo Chico Barangay Captain Bryan Kua.
Mr. Fernandez was accompanied to the City Elections Office by his father former Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. to file his certificate of withdrawal.
Mr. Kua, vice president of the Liga ng mga Barangay Federation, was accompanied to the City Election Office by Mayor Belen Fernandez.
Mr. Fernandez, an incumbent city councilor filed his COC to become the running-mate of Mayor Fernandez last October 16 but observers noted that he did not file it with the mayor as traditionally expected of political party tandems.
A dentist and lawyer by profession, Mr. Fernandez said after completing his third and last term as city councilor on June 30 next year, he will just go into business and practice one of his professions.
Reelectionist Mayor Fernandez and Kua will slug it out with the mother-and-son tandem of Celia and Brian Lim who are both running under the Nacionalista Party in the May 2013 elections.
Celia has a score to settle with Mayor Fernandez as the latter beat her husband former Mayor Benjamin Lim in the 2013 election.
The former mayor suffered a stroke on the eve of election and had to be rushed to a local hospital for surgery before he was rushed to Manila. The Lim patriarch was not able to return to complete his term in 2013.
It was earlier rumored that the former mayor will substitute for Mrs. Lim last Wednesday.
The LP in Dagupan fielded a complete line up for city councilor. Five of its candidates are incumbents, namely Maybelyn Fernandez, Jose Netu Tamayo, Jeslito Seen, Alvin Coquia and Marvin Fabia. The others are Mark Tan, Dennis Canto, Fe Mejia-Vidal and Raiisa Vargas.
NP is fielding only three candidates for seats in the council namely, incumbents Redford Erfe Mejia and Guillermo Vallejos, and former Councilor Chito Samson. (Leonardo Micua)
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