MAYOR BEBOY YAP AND HIS TEAM KNOCKS DOWN OPPONENTS
Mayor Beboy yap, his team and all his supporters must have felt vindicated against all the mudslinging and black propaganda brought about by the recently concluded elections when his entire team Yap-ampil scored a landslide victory against former mayor barcelona’s party. A whooping 17-0 (from Congressman Jules ledesma, to governor Freddie Maranon down to the sangguniang panlungsod) to almost all precincts in the 21 barangays paved the way for the COMELEC and City Board of Canvassers headed by Atty. Salud Villanueva to proclaim Mayor beboy Yap’s team as winners at about 2am of May 12, 2010. A slight delay was brought about when one PCOS machine failed to transmit its results. The BEI concerned, with the assistance of the COMELEC had to use another PCOS machine to successfully transmit results which was done almost midnight of May 11.
Mayor Beboy, now on his 2nd term, leads a very wide margin of 26,563 votes against barcelona’s 12,953 votes, with a difference of 13,610 votes. Yap was able to get an overwhelming 67.77% of votes out of 40,609 escalantehanons who actually voted while Barcelona only got a meager 32.78%. Escalante City has more or less 51,000 voters.
On the other hand, Vice Mayor-elect ester Ampil had shown her strength over opponent then number 1 councilor Rose Manguilimotan. Ampil got 65.15% or 24,184 votes against manguilimotan’s 34.85% or 12,934 votes. Ampil has consistently been in the action with all her programs and social projects across the 21 barangays.
Sangguniang Panlungsod was just the same, all 10 councilors from Team Yap-Ampil will soon be occupying the seats in our city council, namely: Maravillas, crisme, Gabriel, Zamora, torres, Mendoza, pastor, encarquez, Francisco and villalon. A wide margin of 5,026 votes made the 10th placer villalon safe against Talita who occupied the 11th slot.
The victory of Mayor beboy and his team reflects the overwhelming support of the people of escalante from day one of the campaign up to the last moment of the electoral process. This can be attributed to the outstanding performance of Mayor beboy how he managed to implement various infrastructure projects such as road concreting of major roads in the barangays, integrated bus and jeepney terminal, coliseum and many others on top of its socio-economic projects. The good mayor must have gained more votes and sympathy when opponents started to resort into black propaganda and below-the-belt fabricated stories and accusations.
Needless to say, Escalante city is on the right track towards becoming a more progressive, competitive and dynamic city in North Negros.