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Vicente Pimentel Jr. (March 12, 1947 – December 25, 2018), also known as BB Boy Pimentel or simply BB Pimentel, was a Filipino politician. He served as the
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province for three non-consecutive terms from 2001 until 2010 and again from 2016 until his death in office on December 25, 2018. Pimentel began his professional career in politics as a
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, the capital of Surigao del Sur. He served as the mayor of
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, from 1992 until 2001 and again from 2010 to 2016. Pimentel then served as governor of Surigao del Sur from 2016 until his death in 2018. In 2018, Pimentel filed to run for re-election as governor in the forthcoming
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in May 2019. However, Pimentel later withdrew from his re-election race due to deteriorating health. His younger brother, Tandag Mayor Alexander Pimentel, replaced him as the new gubernatorial candidate. Governor Pimentel was hospitalized in Manila in December 2018, but checked himself out of the hospital on December 24 to return home to Surigao del Sur for
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. He died in his sleep the next day on December 25, 2018, at his home in Surigao del Sur at the age of 71.


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