Marikina City Mayor Marcy Teodoro is in the May 2025 race for 1st District Congressman.
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(SDN) — Congresswoman Maan Teodoro of the 1st District of Marikina City, National Capital Region (NCR) has filed her Certificate of Candidacy (COC) to run for mayor of the country’s “Shoe Capital”.
She filed her COC on Monday, October 7, second to the last day of the political exercise that started nationwide on October 1.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) headed by Chair George Erwin Garcia has said that there are 18,280 elective posts next year being contested by thousands of hopefuls.
Currently, the congresswoman’s husband Marcy Teodoro is the incumbent city mayor, who on October 5 filed his own COC to contest in the May 2025 midterm elections the 1st District of Marikina.
The couple is hoping to win the political contest and switch posts in the May 2025 midterm elections.
Expected today are many last-day filers to catch the deadline the poll body imposed.
Read: Mayor Marcy Teodoro Files COC as Congressional Candidate for 1st District of City of Marikina
Meanwhile, Mayor Teodoro responded to the statement of Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III that he was surprised the mayor has thrown his hat in the race for the 1st District of Marikina which the senator has filed his COC for.
“I would just like to set the record straight, last July 28, if I’m not mistaken, umalis sila doon sa political alliance namin (they left our political alliance),” said Mayor Teodoro in a statement reaching SDN – SciTech & Digital News. “In my recollection, that was about three or four months ago.”
The mayor asserted that it was the camp of Pimentel who left the alliance that’s why there was no candidate for the 1st District. “What they wanted was to become Independent so they could be allies of both the parties of Teodoro and Quimbo.”
That was the truth, the mayor said, of the reason he is running for the 1st District of Marikina.
According to philatlas.com, citing a 2020 Census, Marikina, a 1st-class and highlyurbanized city, has a population of 456,059, with a registered voters’ number of list in 2022 of 260,749.
A total of 16 barangays comprised the city, such as, per Wikipedia:
The city is known for its shoe industry, a lifeblood for hundreds or even thousands of residents. — EDD K. USMAN (/)