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A political dynasty within the making? Vilma Santos and son Luis Manzano are set to run as a tandem for the posts of governor and vice governor in Batangas within the 2025 Philippine elections
CEBU, Philippines – The third day of submitting of certificates of candidacy (COC) on Thursday, October 3, noticed key personalities like “Star for All Seasons” Vilma Santos, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, and Sual, Pangasinan Mayor Liseldo “Dong” Calugay in search of authorities posts for the 2025 midterm elections.
Santos, who served because the Batangas sixth district consultant from 2016 to 2022, launched her bid for governor of Batangas after submitting her COC on the Batangas capitol on Thursday morning.
The previous congresswoman’s two sons, Filipino actor-comedian Luis Manzano and Ryan Christian Santos-Recto, filed their very own COCs as properly. Manzano filed his COC for vice governor of Batangas, whereas his brother filed to run for sixth district consultant of Batangas. Santos’ husband, Finance Secretary Ralph Recto, accompanied them.
“Kung ilatag man po namin si Fortunate [Luis Manzano] sa inyo na sana kung kami papalarin sa awa ng Panginoong Diyos at maging kapartner ko, nakikita ko na po ang pwede pa naming magawa dito sa lalawigan ng Batangas,” Santos stated throughout a press convention.
(If we launched Fortunate to you all, that if we’re blessed by God’s mercy and he would develop into my companion, I can already see what we are able to do right here within the province of Batangas.)
Manzano will likely be operating towards incumbent Batangas Governor Hermilando Mandanas, who filed his COC on Wednesday, October 2, for vice governor of Batangas. Mandanas is serving his final time period as governor.
A Duterte critic’s return
Santos will not be the one politician making a comeback in authorities service.
Antonio Trillanes IV, a recognized critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte, filed his COC for mayor of Caloocan Metropolis on the SM Metropolis Grand Central Mall alongside Rizal Avenue Extension in Caloocan, Metro Manila.
“Bilang tubong Barangay 169 ng Caloocan, layun ko na maiahon mula sa kahirapan ang aking mga kababayan at ayusin ang samu’t saring problema ng aming lungsod (As a local of Barangay 169 in Caloocan, my aim is to elevate my countrymen out of poverty and repair the assorted issues of our metropolis),” Trillanes stated in a Fb publish on Thursday.
If Trillanes wins within the upcoming midterm elections, it’ll mark his return to politics after a six-year hiatus. Trillanes served as a senator from 2007 to 2019.
“Ang pagtakbong ito ay panibagong hamon sa aking buhay bilang isang public servant ngunit ito ay nararapat at napapanahon (This run is a contemporary problem in my life as a public servant however it’s proper and well timed),” Trillanes added.
In response to the previous senator, the following a number of months can be intense as his camp would try and dismantle a “corrupt political dynasty that’s decided to carry on to Caloocan.”
Troubled aspirants that filed
Amongst many aspirants going through scrutiny and authorized challenges that also managed to file their candidacies is Dong Calugay, who filed his COC to hunt a 3rd time period as mayor of Sual in Pangasinan.
In September, lawmakers issued a subpoena towards Calugay after he skipped the summons of the Senate panel probing his ties to dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo, who’s linked to unlawful operations of Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs).
Throughout a listening to on September 17, it was revealed that Calugay’s govt assistant helped Guo in getting her counter affidavit for a human trafficking case notarized whereas she was now not within the nation.
Moreover Calugay, within the Visayas, there’s Emmanuel “Weng Weng” Veloso, the brother of San Isidro Mayor Remegio Veloso. He managed to file his COC to symbolize Leyte’s third district, regardless of being on trial for homicide.
He was represented by his lawyer and nephew, Rem Veloso, who filed his COC on the Leyte Provincial Comelec Workplace in Tacloban Metropolis. Veloso was beforehand linked to the 2019 homicide of San Isidro municipal administrator Levi Aporbo Mabini.
As of this writing, Veloso is detained at a jail facility in Payatas, Quezon Metropolis. – Rappler.com
