The mayor of

Valenzuela Valenzuela may refer to: Places * Valenzuela, Paraguay * Valenzuela, Metro Manila, Philippines * Valenzuela, Spain * Valenzuela de Calatrava, Spain * Valenzuela, Louisiana Other uses * Valenzuela (surname), including a list of people with the ...

(), a highly urbanized city in northern

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, is the official head and chief executive of Valenzuela. He leads on enforcing city ordinances and improving public services. The mayor has a

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of three years, but has a maximum electoral tenure of three consecutive terms. Inaugural holder of the office was Pío Valenzuela (1869–1956), served from 1899 to 1901, for whom the city was named. During the Spanish colonial period, the town that composed of what is now Valenzuela, called before as ''Polo'', was ruled by a ''

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'' appointed through an exclusive nomination provided by the Spanish law. Later in the American period, first mayor Pío Valenzuela was appointed as its first municipal president until his resignation in 1901. Since then, municipal presidents are elected by a

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. The current 1987

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and the City Charter of 1998 defined the position, powers and responsibilities of the mayor.

List of mayors

Town of Polo, Bulacan (1623–1899)

Municipality of Polo, Bulacan (1899–1960)

Division (1960–1963)

Municipality of Polo, Bulacan

Municipality of Valenzuela, Bulacan

Municipality of Valenzuela (1964–1998)

City of Valenzuela (since 1998)

Timeline

ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:12 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:60 right:170 left:20 AlignBars = late DateFormat = mm/dd/yyyy Period = from:02/26/1986 till:12/31/2026 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:2 start:1987 Colors = id:Vacant value:black id:None value:gray(0.3) id:PDPLaban value:yelloworange legend:PDP-Laban id:NP value:limegreen legend: Nacionalista id:LakasCMD value:blue legend: Lakas-CMD id:NPC value:teal legend: NPC Legend = columns:1 left:120 top:25 columnwidth:210 BarData = barset:others PlotData= width:5 align:left fontsize:S shift:(5,-4) anchor:till barset:others from:02/26/1986 till:12/31/1987 text:"Wilfredo F. Chongco" color:PDPLaban from:12/31/1987 till:06/30/1988 text:"Vacant (appointees)" color:None from:06/30/1988 till:06/30/1995 text:"Santiago A. de Guzman" color:NP from:06/30/1995 till:06/30/2004 text:"Jose Emmanuel L. Carlos" color:LakasCMD from:06/30/2004 till:06/30/2013 text:"Sherwin T. Gatchalian" color:NPC from:06/30/2013 till:06/30/2022 text:"Rexlon T. Gatchalian" color:NPC from:06/30/2022 till:09/30/2024 text:"Weslie T. Gatchalian" color:NPC

References

{{Valenzuela, Metro Manila

Valenzuela City Valenzuela (, Tagalog: ; American Spanish: , European Spanish: ), officially the City of Valenzuela (), is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 714,97 ...

People from Valenzuela, Metro Manila 1899 establishments in the Philippines