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MAYOR Sara Inday Duterte vs. Nograles in fight for Congress in 2013
BY ROGER M. BALANZA
There would be a second encounter between Mayor Sara Duterte and ex-Speaker Prospero Nograles in the coming May 2013 elections.
This time it would be in another political battlefield: the First District congressional race.
The First District is a known bailiwick of Nograles. His son, Karlo, is the incumbent congressman.
Reports say Karlo would be running for vice mayor, with the ex-Speaker to attempt to get back the congressional seat that he held for years before Karlo.
This much–that Mayor Duterte would be facing off with Nograles in the First District congress race— was hinted by the mayor’s father, Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, in the Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa hosted by lawyer Geraldine Tiu on ABS/CBN on Sunday.
Mayor Duterte beat Nograles with a vote margin of 220,000 votes in the 2010 elections. It was Nograles’ third failed attempt to capture City Hall from the stranglehold of the Dutertes.
“I am more useful as mayor. I would prefer to be mayor because I am eyeball-to-eyeball with the problems of the people, Duterte said in the program.
The statement came over waning speculations he is retiring from politics, may be seeking reelection or may be running for another position other than the mayorship in 2013.
In the peogram, Duterte described work in Congress as “boring and lousy.” Duterte held the First District congressional seat from 1998 to 2001.
I am good at peace and order. There is no action in Congress, he said further butressing speculations he is gunning to get back the position he held for 18 years.
Duterte however refused to be categorical about his, and Mayor Duterte’s, final plan for 2013.
Asked about who would be running for Congress against Nograles, Duterte said; I’ll just whisper it to you, but don’t make a fuss. There seems to be a plan, but it’s not final yet. It’s not me, I don’t know who, he said.
But the body language bared all.
He siddled up to Tiu’s side, whispered something in her ear that made the lawyer let out a mischievous grin.
With Duterte running for mayor –Nograles and his Team Nograles are said to be positioning former Second District congressman Elias Ruy Lopez for the mayoral contest—and Mayor Duterte battling it out with the elder Nograles, congressman Karlo Nograles would be fighting off councilor Paolo Duterte, Mayor Duterte’s brother, in the vice mayoral contest, according to sources in the Duterte-led local political bloc Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod.
High survey rating no effect on Davao City mayor
High ratings in surveys indicate strong public trust and confidence and winning popularity, but Mayor Sara Duterte is not being pushed to seek reelection only because ego-boosting figures in a local survey.
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The University of Mindanao Institute of Public Opinion (UM-IPO) in a recent survey on popularity and trust placed the mayor and father Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on top of the heap.
This is not enough to convince me to seek reelection, said Mayor Duterte who has kept to her heart her future political plans.
While she was thankful for the results showing the Dabawenyos’ confidence in her, the mayor said the IPO figures inspire her to do more for the city.
But Mayor Duterte said she may put off a plan to retire after her first term after her father said he would spend for her if she seeks reelection.
Mayor Duterte bagged the vice mayoral race without a contest in the 2010 elections in her first foray into politics.
She demolished former House Speaker Prospero Nograles in the mayoral contest in 2010, winning with a vote margin of more than 220,000 votes.
Looming in the horizon to push a challenge in 2013 to the Dutertes’ stranglehold on local politics are Nograles and son First District congressman Karlo Nograles.
Sources said Karlo may contest the mayoral post while the ex-Speaker was speculated to attempt to go back to Congress.
Even as the Dutertes have not yet made a decision on who and what position to run for in 2013, their political bloc Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod is prepping up to “politically demolish” the Nograleses in next year’s polls.
“The Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod has a mopping up work to do in the coming 2013 local elections: Erase from the political landscape the highest elected official from the opposition, a report in the Durian Post said earlier.
Object of the marching order of the dominant local political bloc is First District Representative Karlo Nograles, son of former Speaker Prospero Nograles.
Hugpong was founded by former mayor now Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte two elections ago. The bloc is the third political bloc that dominated local politics, headed by Duterte (mayor for 18 years), since his first mayoral term in 1988. Its predecessors were the Lakas ng Dabaw and Alyansa Dabaw.
Hugpong is presently headed by Mayor Sara Duterte. Mayor Duterte beat the former Speaker in the mayoral race by more than 220,000 in the 2010 elections. It was the elder Nograles’ third failed attempt to capture City Hall.
Karlo was among few survivors of the Hugpong onslaught in the 2010, where Hugpong captured 20 of 24 elective positions at stake. Runnng under his father’s Team Nograles, Karlo beat city councilor Mabel Acosta, the Hugpong bet, by only about 8,000 votes in the district known to be Nograles’ stronghold.
My father wants the next representative of the city’s first congressional district to come from Hugpong, Mayor Sara Duterte told media.
The two other congressional posts in the city are held by Hugpong: Isidro Ungab (Third District) and Mylen Garcia (Second District).
A sweep of all elective posts is said to be a long dream of Vice Mayor Duterte.
The 26-member Davao City Council is also dominated by Hugpong with only four non-members: Joanne Bonguyan and Rene Lopez of Team Nograles, and independents Jimmy Dureza and Pilar Braga.
The Hugpong has yet to decide on who to field against Karlo Nograles, but speculations say it could be any of the three Dutertes. Aside from the mayor and vice mayor, there is a third Duterte in local politics: Paolo Duterte, Barangay Captain of Catalunan Grande who sits in the Davao City Council representing the Association of Barangays (Liga ng mga Barangay).
Davao City Mayor Inday Sara to bare 2013 political plans in June
Speculations on whether Mayor Sara Duterte would seek reelection, retire from politics or run for another post would end in June, when the mayor said she would bare her final political plans.
By June, Mayor Duterte told media at City Hall during her press briefing when pressed for comment on her future political plans.
The 2013 Elections is set in May. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said the coming polls as in the 2010 elections would be an automated polling using Prencinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines to count the votes.
Comelec has set deadline for filing of candidacy in October 2012 to allow time for the poll body to prepare computerized paraphernalia for the automated election.
The Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod, the local political bloc headed by the
mayor and father Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, would be finalizing its line-up for the 2013 election by middle of this year, said a source inside the bloc.
Mayor Duterte, who has kep the public in limbo about her plans, said she has not yet made a final decision. She earlier said she may retire from politics after her first mayoral term to focus on having a baby with hubby Mans Carpio. The couple is childless after a 5-year union. Mayor Sara first joined politics by winning the vice mayoral post in the 2007 elections.
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the final Hugpong line-up would be decided by the bloc with surveys backing up the choices.
The vice mayor said he would support whatever is her daughter’s political plans to the point of financially supporting her next mayoral bid if she doesn’t have the money to spend for the election. ROGER M. BALANZA
Rody-Sara verbal clashes aimed at “public welfare”
BY ROGER M. BALANZA
Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said public interest is a top priority in governance that he would push even if this could lead to conflicts with daughter Mayor Sara Duterte.
Duterte is acting mayor for a month with Mayor Duterte on leave starting April 5 for medical check-ups.
The Dutertes have taken opposite positions on on issues on local governance and public interest, the conflicts in opinion most often marked by verbal exchanges between the two in media.
In the Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa television program on ABS/CBN Davao, he reiterated that he will support his daughter Mayor Duterte “only if she’s correct in implementing the law.”
Duterte said he will also have no qualms to point out the errors if the mayor is wrong in her actions.
“This is government. This is not our property. We are working here for the people,” he pointed out.
Would you like us not to watch each other’s decision on local government matters? he said.
Even when the mayor is his daughter, Duterte said he cannot just keep silent on matters of public interest.
Duterte said he also expects the mayor to criticize him and the city council if they also commit mistakes in the performance of their duties.
He said the mayor has a mind of her own even during her growing up years.
“I did not raise my daughter as a robot. I expect her to go up as a lawyer, and if she thinks her stance is right, fine. Let’s debate on it so that the people will know, because it will be the people who will benefit from it at the end of the day,” Duterte said. ROGER M. BALANZA
‘Inday not comfy with Rody’
Tit for tat.
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte says she finds it hard to work with her father, Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
Criticism is a two-way street.
Reacting, the vice mayor said the feeling is mutual that in fact dates to when Sara, now a lawyer, was younger.
She was the most hardheaded of my children, said vice mayor Duterte, who is widely known not no mince words and not frugal in expletives he dishes out at critics.
The Dutertes have taken opposite positions on several issues on local governance and public interest, the conflicts in opinion most often marked by verbal exchanges between the two in media.
But the elder Duterte said the conflicts are for public welfare and part of discussion on good government and transparency.
The mayor is the lone daughter of the vice mayor with estranged wife Elizabeth Zimmerman Duterte. The other siblings are Paolo Duterte, barangay captain of Catalunan Grande and sitting at the Davao City Council representing the Liga ng mga Barangay, and youngest Sebastian.
She was hardheaded even as a child, said the vice mayor at the Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa televisionprogram on ABS/CBN Davao.
I find it difficult working with him because he is a difficult person, said the mayor when asked to comment on her relationship with the father.
She said she is not comfortable with having verbal clashes with her vice mayor father.
It’s difficult when he contradicts what I say in public, considering that I am the mayor, she said.
The mayor said she could not change the father, but said however that the conflicts have an upside in that public issues are raised up in the exchange of opinion between her who is in the executive department and the father who runs the legislative branch of local governance.
Our conflicting opinions enable the public to see issues in two dimensions, she said. ROGER M. BALANZA
Davao City mayor, vice mayor in verbal clashes
No ‘Life is Here’ for VM Rody
BY ROGER M. BALANZA
LIFE IS HERE is the slogan adopted by Mayor Sara Duterte to drumbeat the city as a tourism and investment haven, and to tell people about the good things about Davao City.
But for Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, there is no life at City Hall while he is the acting mayor during the summer month of April.
The mayor, his daughter, has filed a month-long leave starting April 5 for medical check-ups in Manila.
I will not hold office at City Hall. Nanglood na ko (I am already disappointed), he said at the Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa television program on ABS/CBN Davao.
Host Geraldine Tiu did not push the issue to ask Duterte to elaborate, but the disappointment could be traced to Mayor Sara Dutere’s recent statement about her relationship with her father.
I find it hard to work with him, said Mayor Duterte.
Vice mayor Duterte, said he would be holding office at the Davao City Council, where he is presiding officer, not at City Hall.
While he may not hold office daily, Duterte said he would be on call by the public 24/7 as acting city mayor.
Mayor Duterte made public her relationship with the father during a recent media interview.
INDAY SARA: GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
The Dutertes are known for taking different sides of the coin in various involving governance.
But the father said the conflicts are for transparency and good governance that redound to public welfare.
I am not comfortable with him criticizing my actions because I am the mayor, she said. Mayor Duterte is on her first term. The elder Duterte had been mayor for 18 years.
DUTERTES VOW DEFEAT OF EX-SPEAKER PROSPERO NOGRALES SON IN 2013 ELECTION
Hugpong 2013 battlecry:
Get the head of Karlo!
BY ROGER M. BALANZA
The Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod has a mopping up work to do in the coming 2013 local elections: Erase from the political landscape the highest elected official from the opposition.
Object of the marching order of the dominant local political bloc is First District Representative Karlo Nograles, son of former Speaker Prospero Nograles.
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Hugpong was founded by former mayor now Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte two elections ago. The bloc is the third political bloc that dominated local politics, headed by Duterte (mayor for 18 years), since his first mayoral term in 1988. Its predecessors were the Lakas ng Dabaw and Alyansa Dabaw.
Hugpong is presently headed by Mayor Sara Duterte. Mayor Duterte beat the former Speaker in the mayoral race by more than 220,000 in the 2010 elections. It was the elder Nograles’ third failed attempt to capture City Hall.
Karlo was among few survivors of the Hugpong onslaught in the 2010, where Hugpong captured 20 of 24 elective positions at stake. Runnng under his father’s Team Nograles, Karlo beat city councilor Mabel Acosta, the Hugpong bet, by only about 8,000 votes in the district known to be Nograles’ stronghold.
My father wants the next representative of the city’s first congressional district to come from Hugpong, Mayor Sara Duterte told media.
The two other congressional posts in the city are held by Hugpong: Isidro Ungab (Third District) and Mylen Garcia (Second District).
A sweep of all elective posts is said to be a long dream of Vice Mayor Duterte.
The 26-member Davao City Council is also dominated by Hugpong with only four non-members: Joanne Bonguyan and Rene Lopez of Team Nograles, and independents Jimmy Dureza and Pilar Braga.
The Hugpong has yet to decide on who to field against Karlo Nograles, but speculations say it could be any of the three Dutertes. Aside from the mayor and vice mayor, there is a third Duterte in local politics: Paolo Duterte, Barangay Captain of Catalunan Grande who sits in the Davao City Council representing the Association of Barangays (Liga ng mga Barangay).
DUTERTE BARES FORMULA FOR POLIITICAL SUCCESS
DUTERTE with a paraplegic boy seeking help to buy a wheelchair
Can you embrace the poor and the sick?
This question, according to Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, is the question that has guided him through the years of his political life to explain the reason why he is popular.
In the Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa television program on ABS/CBN on Sunday, Duterte said the question was first thrown by his father, the late undivided Davao Governor Vicente Duterte, at him and the other Duterte children when they started toying with the idea of entering politics.
The late Duterte, who died in 1988, was widely-known for his pro-poor image, a legacy that Duterte, and now Mayor Sara Duterte, his daughter, continues.
It is sincerity to serve the people that counts, he said.
In a recent popularity survey by the University of Mindanao Institute of Popular Opinion (IPO), Mayor Duterte and the vice mayor netted similar ratings of 99.4 percent. First District Congressman Karlo Nograles got the same score.
But in the trust survey, the Dutertes got 98.8 percent against Nograles’ 94.1 %.
Duterte said the popularity rating was natural to come, public officials being “popular” for being the “face of governance.”
In the program, he spelled out barometers for political success and public acceptability: loyalty to the country, honesty, dedication to public service and sincerity.
And then took a minute to hurl a broadside at a Davao City ‘congressman’ whom he said lacked the elements to explain why he lost in several mayoral elections.
In an edition of the Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa two Sundays ago, Duterte said former Speaker Prospero Nograles suffered three defeats in his bid to become city mayor for his lack of connect to the poor.
Nograles has a rich man’s image. Anak-mayaman, he said. He brags about being No. 2 in the bar exams, about being the No. 4 most powerful man in the country (as House Speaker), but he always lost in the mayoral race, said Duterte.
Nograles has lost three times in his bid for the top city post: in 1992 to Duterte, in 1998 to Duterte’s then political ally in 1998, and in the 2010 elections to Mayor Sara Duterte, who defeated him with a vote margin of more than 220,00 votes.
Mayor Inday Sara has final say in Duterte bloc bets for 2013
MAYOR SARA DUTERTE with brother city councilor Paolo Duterte hitting the campaign trail in the 2010 elections
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said that as the head of Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod, Mayor Sara Duterte has right to pick the line-up of the local bloc’s bets in the coming 2013 elections.
Hugpong is a local political grouping formed by the elder Duterte. Its present head is the mayor, being the highest elected official of the bloc.
In the Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa television program on Sunday, Duterte said partymates gave the mayor the right during a powwow in January last year.
To date, the bloc has not yet chosen its candidates, he said.
Hugpong insiders said the line-up could be completed as early as July with next year’s automated May polling, moving the deadline of filing of certificates of candidacy in late Cotober this year.
The early filing allows the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to prepare computerized voting paraphernalia for the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) that would count the votes.
Duterte said the mayor’s prerogatives apply to all, including candidates for top posts like him.
She could say I run for mayor or remain as vice mayor, he said.
Mayor Duterte earlier said she may not run for reelection and would spend time with husband Mans Carpio and have a baby, but has put on hold her final political plans.
The mayor’s announcement has sparked speculations that the vice mayor would run next year for the mayoral post he held for 18 years.
But the vice mayor said a survey may be conducted in support of whatever is the mayor’s decision, saying public pulse is also valued by Hugpong. ROGER M. BALANZA
Inday Sara tells Rody: Gun ban idea mine!
BY ROGER M. BALANZA
Mayor Sara Duterte has shielded Public Safety and Command Center (PSCC) chief Magno Adalin alleged by Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to have inspired the month-long gun ban during the Araw ng Dabaw 2012 celebration.
Mayor Duterte said the gun ban was her idea that she proposed to the Davao City Peace and Order Council (CPOC).
“I don’t work with advisers who whisper nonsense in my ears, ” the mayor told media. Davao City POlice chief Ronald dela Rosa supported the ban.
Vice Mayor Duterte had scored Adalin as having suggested during a CPOC meeting to ask the Philippine National Police to
ADALIN
