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2019 Zamboanga City Local Elections
Local elections were held in Zamboanga City on May 13, 2019, within the Philippine general election. The voters elected for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, and eight councilors per district. Retiring and term-limited elective officials * Cesar Iturralde, incumbent Vice-Mayor, term-limited in 2019 * Rodolfo Bayot, incumbent District I councilor, term-limited in 2019 * Rommel Agan, incumbent District II councilor, term-limited in 2019 Candidates Notes: * bold means the candidate is incumbent and running for reelection on the same post; * ''italic'' means the candidate previously run last 2016 election either on the same post or other posts; * ''bold and italic'' means the candidate is an incumbent and is running for another position. ;Notes Adelante Zamboanga Party Dela Cruz is also a guest candidate of Team Climaco Coalition. Partido Prosperidad y Amor para na Zamboanga Aggrupation of Parties for Progress Results The candidates for distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Zamboanga City
The Government of Zamboanga City, also known as the Zamboanga City Government is the local government unit in-charge of the City of Zamboanga. It is a mayor-council form of government supervised directly by the President of the Philippines and the Secretary of the Interior and Local Government. The city government has three interdependent branches: the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch. The powers of the branches are vested by the 1991 Local Government Code of the Philippines in the following: * Local legislative power is vested in a unicameral Sangguniang Panglungsod with the vice-mayor as its presiding officer. * Local executive power is exercised by the government under the leadership of the City Mayor. * Local judicial power is vested in the Regional Trial Court and lower courts. Legislative department The legislative power of the city is vested in the unicameral Sangguniang Panglungsod. It is composed of: *the Vice Mayor as its presidi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laban Ng Demokratikong Pilipino
The Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino () is a centre-right political party in the Philippines. There are no results available for the 2004 election for the House of Representatives, but according to the website of the House, the party held 7 out of 235 seats. The party is divided into two factions. The faction led by Edgardo Angara contested in the 2004 elections as a member party of the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (''Coalition of United Filipinos''). In the May 14, 2007 national elections, the party won 3 seats in the House of Representatives.See 2007 Philippine general election. History In the mid-1980s, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino, Lakas ng Bayan (LABAN) and Lakas ng Bansa parties became members of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO) coalition that supported the candidacy of Corazon C. Aquino and Salvador H. Laurel for president and vice president, respectively in the February 7, 1986 snap election. By early 1986, PDP had merged with LABAN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Philippine Local Elections
Local elections in the Philippines were held on May 13, 2019. This was conducted together with the 2019 general election for national positions. All elected positions above the barangay (village) level were disputed. The following positions were disputed: * 81 provincial governorships and vice-governorships * 780 Provincial Board ( Sangguniang Panlalawigan) members * 1,634 mayorships and vice mayorships * 13,544 city and municipal councilors ( Sangguniang Panlungsod and Sangguniang Bayan) The elective positions in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) were not decided on this day. The first elections for BARMM will be done after the 2020 Philippine census is published. The elective positions in the barangays were also not decided on this day. These were supposed to be held in October 2016, but were postponed to October 2017, then again to May 2018. Electoral system Every local government unit, be it a province, city, municipality or a barangay elects a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine House Of Representatives Elections In The Zamboanga Peninsula, 2019
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republika sang Filipinas * ibg, Republika nat Filipinas * ilo, Republika ti Filipinas * ivv, Republika nu Filipinas * pam, Republika ning Filipinas * krj, Republika kang Pilipinas * mdh, Republika nu Pilipinas * mrw, Republika a Pilipinas * pag, Republika na Filipinas * xsb, Republika nin Pilipinas * sgd, Republika nan Pilipinas * tgl, Republika ng Pilipinas * tsg, Republika sin Pilipinas * war, Republika han Pilipinas * yka, Republika si Pilipinas In the recognized optional languages of the Philippines: * es, República de las Filipinas * ar, جمهورية الفلبين, Jumhūriyyat al-Filibbīn is an archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangguniang Kabataan
Sangguniang Kabataan (abbreviated as SK; ) is a council meant to represent the youth in each barangay in the Philippines. It was put "on hold", but not quite abolished, prior to the 2013 barangay elections. In January 2016, the Sangguniang Kabataan Reform Act was signed into law which made some significant changes to the SK and initially scheduled new elections for October 2016. In March 2017, the elections were postponed anew to May 2018. The SK Chairman leads the Sangguniang Kabataan. A Local Youth Development Council (LYDC) composed of representatives of different local youth groups supports the SK and its programs. The Sangguniang Kabataan is the successor of the Kabataang Barangay (KB; ) which was abolished by the Local Government Code of 1991. The author, Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. abolished KB because of allegations that this organization faced. Function and structure Each Barangay houses a Sangguniang Kabataan composed of a chairman, seven members, a secretar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partido Prosperidad Y Amor Para Na Zamboanga , a town in Dajabón Province of the Dominican Republic
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Partido, partidista and partidario may refer to: * Spanish for a political party, people who share political ideology or who are brought together by common issues Territorial subdivision * Partidos of Buenos Aires, the second-level administrative subdivision in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina * Partidos of Chile, a third-level subdivision in Colonial Chile below intendencias, also known as ''corregimientos'' * Judicial district, shortened from ''partido judicial'' in some Spanish-speaking countries * Partido (region), a non-autonomous administrative region during the times of the Spanish Empire in the Americas Places * Partido, Dominican Republic Partido is a town in the Dajabón province of the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamboanga City Council
The Zamboanga City Council (Chavacano: ''Consejo de la Ciudad de Zamboanga'') is Zamboanga City's Sangguniang Panlungsod or local legislature. Currently composed of 19 members, with 16 councilors elected from Zamboanga City's two legislative districts and three (3) ''ex-officio'' members composed of the: (1) President of the ''Liga ng mga Barangay ng Lungsod ng Zamboanga'' (English: League of Barangays of the City of Zamboanga); (2) the ''President of the Pederasyon ng Sangguniang Kabataan'' (English: Federation of Youth Councils); and (3) the Mandatory Representative of the indigenous peoples in Zamboanga City. The presiding officer of the council is the Vice-Mayor, who is elected citywide. The council is responsible for creating laws and ordinances under Zamboanga City's jurisdiction. The mayor can veto proposed bills, but the council can override it with a two-thirds supermajority. Evolution The first legislative body of Zamboanga was established in 1914 composed of counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incumbent
The incumbent is the current holder of an office or position, usually in relation to an election. In an election for president, the incumbent is the person holding or acting in the office of president before the election, whether seeking re-election or not. In some situations, there may not be an incumbent at time of an election for that office or position (ex; when a new electoral division is created), in which case the office or position is regarded as vacant or open. In the United States, an election without an incumbent is referred to as an open seat or open contest. Etymology The word "incumbent" is derived from the Latin verb ''incumbere'', literally meaning "to lean or lay upon" with the present participle stem ''incumbent-'', "leaning a variant of ''encumber,''''OED'' (1989), p. 834 while encumber is derived from the root ''cumber'', most appropriately defined: "To occupy obstructively or inconveniently; to block fill up with what hinders freedom of motion or action; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggrupation Of Parties For Progress
Aggrupation of Parties for Prosperity, commonly known as APP and formerly known as Aggrupation of Parties for Progress, is a local political party in the region of Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines. It is a political party founded by Romeo Jalosjos as the Alliance of Parties for Progress based in the province of Zamboanga del Norte. As of 2018, APP is currently allied with Hugpong ng Pagbabago of Sara Duterte. Most of its candidates are allied with different national parties, notably Nacionalista Party and Nationalist People's Coalition. Electoral history 2013 local elections Cesar Jalosjos, Zamboanga del Norte's 3rd District representative was fielded for the gubernatorial post with Dapitan City Vice Mayor and former Mayor Patri "Jing" Chan running for the vice-gubernatorial post. Both Jalosjos and Chan were defeated by former Dipolog City mayor Berto Uy and Dipolog City Vice Mayor Senen Angeles. Rolando Yebes, a member of this party, was term-limited being Provinci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakas–CMD
Lakas–Christian Muslim Democrats, abbreviated as Lakas–CMD and also known simply as Lakas, is a political party in the Philippines. Lakas–CMD is considered to sit on the centre-right of the political spectrum, and is influenced by Christian democracy and Islamic democracy. Since the 2022 elections, Lakas–CMD is currently the biggest party in the House of Representatives, with the party's president, Martin Romualdez, serving as Speaker of the House. Vice President Sara Duterte is the party's chairperson, and the party is a dominant member of the UniTeam Alliance led by President Bongbong Marcos. Lakas–CMD has produced one President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who was in power when the party was formed in 2009, and one vice president, Sara Duterte, who was elected in 2022. Lakas–CMD was founded in 2008, after the original Lakas–CMD party merged with the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (KAMPI), forming Lakas Kampi CMD. The party later reverted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nationalist Alliance
The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA; ) is a political party in the Philippines. It was created as a multi-party electoral alliance replacing the former United Opposition (UNO) coalition for the 2013 midterm elections, before it was launched as a single political party on July 1, 2015, by Jejomar Binay for his candidacy in the 2016 presidential election. The acronym "UNA" spells out the Filipino-Spanish word for "first". History Formation, 2013 elections (2012–2015) The Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), headed by former president Joseph Estrada, and the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP–Laban), headed by Vice President Jejomar Binay, signed a coalition agreement on April 4, 2012, for the 2013 elections, forming the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA). The two parties had been partners in the United Opposition in the 2007 election, and Estrada and Binay were running mates during the 2010 presidential election. Aquilino Pimentel III, PDP–Laban presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
