Rosalina Garcia Jalosjos, known locally as Nene Jalosjos, is a Filipino politician from the province of

Zamboanga del Norte Zamboanga del Norte (Cebuano language, Cebuano: ''Amihanang Zamboanga''; Subanon language, Subanon: ''Utara Sembwangan''; ), officially the Province of Zamboanga del Norte, is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines situated w ...

. She served as the 10th

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from 2022 to 2025

Political career

Jalosjos first started her political career when she was elected as member of the

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from 2010 to 2013. She would go on to run for mayor of Dapitan, and won against Agapito Cardino (who only assumed office in January 2013 after the

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nullified her brother then-Mayor Dominador Jalosjos Jr.'s 2010 victory) in 2013, 2016, and in a hotly contested 2019 election against former Dipolog City mayor Evelyn Uy where disqualification cases were filed by the Jalosjos camp to question Uy's residency requirement. As her term as mayor was to end, she made her run as governor of Zamboanga del Norte where she faced Evelyn Uy again and four other candidates in the

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. From there, she went on to win the gubernatorial race, and take over the reins from the Uy family since the Jalosjos family's political defeat by the Uy family in 2013. In the 2025 local elections, she ran for mayor of Dipolog City facing

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, but was defeated.

Personal life

She is the sister of businessman and former Zamboanga del Norte First District congressman Romeo "Nonong" Jalosjos, who was removed from Congress in 2002 following his conviction for raping a child, businessman and former Third District congressman Cesar Jalosjos, former First District congresswoman and Piñan town mayor Cecilia "Cely" Jalosjos-Carreon, former Dapitan mayor Dominador "Jun" Jalosjos Jr., and former Zamboanga del Norte First District board member Anabel "Bebing" Jalosjos-Garcia. Incumbent Dapitan mayor

Bullet Jalosjos Seth Frederick Pal Jalosjos (born September 11, 1979), known as Bullet Jalosjos, is a Filipino businessman and politician from the province of Zamboanga del Norte, who currently serves as mayor of Dapitan. Family and personal life He is the so ...

, incumbent representative Romeo Jalosjos Jr., incumbent First District board member Angel Jalosjos Carreon, former

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mayor Svetlana Jalosjos-de Leon, and former

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governor Rommel Jalosjos are her nephews.

References

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