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2025 Pasig Local Elections
Local elections were held in Pasig on Monday, May 12, 2025, as part of the 2025 Philippine general election. The electorate will elect a mayor, a vice mayor, twelve members of the Pasig City Council, and one representative to the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The officials elected in the election will assume their respective offices on June 30, 2025, for a three-year-long term. The election is primarily contested around the two rival tickets Giting ng Pasig headed by the reelectionist Mayor Vico Sotto, and Team Kaya This, headed by businesswoman Sarah Discaya. Sotto is running for this third and final term as Mayor of Pasig, having been in office since 2019. Background Several graft cases have been filed against incumbent mayor Vico Sotto, the first ones he has faced in his political career, which he believes are politically motivated. The cases stem from allegedly distributing shirts instead of cash allowances to city hall employees, and for allegedly giving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vico Sotto
Victor Ma. Regis "Vico" Nubla Sotto (; born June 17, 1989) is a Filipino politician who has served as the 12th mayor of Pasig since 2019. He previously served as a member of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, Pasig City Council for the first district from 2016 to 2019. A member of the Sotto family, he studied political science at the Ateneo de Manila University, where he graduated in 2011. He entered politics in 2016 when he ran as an independent candidate for councilor and won, serving one term in the local legislature. Sotto attracted media attention in 2019 Pasig local elections, 2019 when he defeated Mayor Bobby Eusebio in the mayoral election, ending the Eusebio's 27-year hold on the city's mayoralty on a progressive platform that focused on combating corruption and improving local services. Sotto's tenure as mayor has been marked by his government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Metro Manila, which was met with positive reception among media. Early life and career S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Pasig Local Elections
Local elections took place in Pasig on Monday, May 9, 2022, as part of the 2022 Philippine general election. Background Incumbent Vico Sotto was elected mayor of Pasig in 2019 and will seek a second consecutive term. Meanwhile, incumbent vice mayor Iyo Caruncho Bernardo was elected for a third consecutive term in 2019. Retiring and term-limited incumbents Term-limited incumbents These are incumbents who are on their third consecutive terms and cannot run for re-election but may run for other positions. Vice mayor * Iyo Caruncho Bernardo ( PRP), running for mayor of Pasig 1st District councilors * Ferdinand Avis (PDP–Laban) * Rhichie Brown (Nacionalista), his wife Dottie is running for councilor in Pasig's 1st District as an independent candidate * Ory Rupisan (PDP–Laban) 2nd District councilors * Olly Benito (Nacionalista), his wife Apple is running for councilor in Pasig's 2nd District as a candidate of the People's Reform Party under the Team Pasigueño ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nacionalista Party
The Nacionalista Party (Filipino language, Filipino and Spanish language in the Philippines, Spanish: ''Partido Nacionalista''; , NP) is a political party in the Philippines which is the oldest existing party in the country and in Southeast Asia. It is responsible for leading the country throughout most of the 20th century since its founding in 1907; it was the ruling party from 1935 to 1946 (under Presidents Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osmeña), 1953–1961 (under Presidents Ramon Magsaysay and Carlos P. Garcia) and 1965–1978 (under President Ferdinand Marcos). It was dubbed as the Philippines' "''Grand Old Party''". Ideology The Nacionalista Party was initially created as a Filipino nationalist party that supported Philippine independence until 1946 when the United States Treaty of Manila (1946), granted independence to the country.Dayley, Robert (2016)''Southeast Asia In The New International Era'' Avalon Publishing. Retrieved April 19, 2017.Liow, J.; Leifer, M. (1995)''Dic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
