Featured image above shows Mayor Marcy R. Teodoro after filing his COC to contest the congressional First District of the City of Marikina. (Image supplied)
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(SDN) — Mayor Marcelino “Marcy” R. Teodoro is contesting the congressional First District of the City of Marikina.
He made this official today, October 5, as he filed his Certificate of Candidacy (COC) at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) National Capital Region (NCR) Office in San City, Metro Manila, at around 8 a.m.
Teodoro is on his third and final term as local chief executive of the city, popularly known as the “Shoe Capital of the Philippines” for its thriving shoe-making companies.
As all those running in next year’s political, exercise, he signed the candidates’ pledge for clean, honest elections with integrity.
Teodoro is also a member of the Mayors 4 Good Governance (M4GG), a group composed of mayors sworn to uphold good governance, fight graft & corruption and illegal drugs, among other problems of society.
Read: When Mayor Marcy opened the city’s own Covid-19 testing center
He performed well during the onslaught of the 2019 coronavirus pandemic in the country, having established the Marikina Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory (MMDL), a crucial institution in helping the city is battling Covid-19.
Teodoro is also credited for the 2019 City Ordinance No. 065, or the Anti-Discrimination Ordinance.
If he wins next year, he will return to Congress as he was Marikina congressman for three consecutive terms from 2007 to 2016. He won as mayor in 2016.
Over in Pasig City, Mayor Vico Sotto also filed today his COC for his third and final term, along with his runningmate and second-termer Robert Jaworski, Jr.
The duo filed their respective COCs at the Comelec office in Pasig City.
Observers noted the third term of Sotto, son of movie and entertainment personalities Vic Sotto and Coney Reyes, is crucial for the realization of his ambitious Pasig City Hall Campus, a multi-building and multi-use new city hall complex with a budget of Php9.6 billion. He said the budget is from the city government’s savings and may go down depending on the result of bidding for the project
Observers have expressed the opinion, though, that the massive budget, or even a third of it, can be used, instead, to build a hi-tech hospital as the Pasigueños’ health is more important than new buildings. — EDD K. Usman (/)