May 9, 2016 (2016-05-09) 2019 → Antonino Calixto Pastor de Castro Jorge Del Rosario Romulo Marcelo | Albert Bañez Antonino Calixto PBM Liberal Date 9 May 2016 | |
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Local elections will be held in Pasay City on May 9, 2016 within the Philippine general election. The voters elected for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, the congressman, and the councilors, six of them in the two districts of the city.
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Background
Incumbent City Mayor Antonino Calixto will be seeking a third and final term this 2016 election, running under the Liberal Party. His opponents are former Congressman Jose Antonio Roxas and Businessman Jorge Del Rosario.
Incumbent Vice Mayor Marlon Pesebre will be seeking a third and final term, running under the United Nationalist Alliance. His opponent is Noel Del Rosario.
Incumbent Congresswoman Imelda Calixto-Rubiano of the Liberal Party is running for a third and final term. Her opponent is Atty. Sonny Quial of the Nationalist People's Coalition.
Former Barangay 47, Zone 06 Youth Administrator and People's Reform Party City Councilor Candidate Ramon Yabut is seeking for a first term in the City Council. It is going to be his first ever bid for public office. Also it is noted that Councilor Ramon Yabut is the youngest ever candidate in history for the City Council of Pasay City. He is running for City Councilor of the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Pasay City in its second district. Another independent candidate Architect Ricardo C. Suva, Jr., a former member of Knights of the Altar and alumnus of Sta.Clara de Montefalco Parish is also eyeing for a seat in the City's 2nd district. He is an architect by profession who built numerous projects in Pasay City and in various areas nationwide. Architect Suva has a perspective of Pasay as one of the fastest growing cities in terms of project developments, infrastructures and business opportunities.
The Major Coalitions are Team Dr. Roxas is a major opposition team, which is composed of Nationalist People's Coalition, United Nationalist Alliance, Partido Demokratikong Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino and Akbayan and Team Calixto is the administration coalition of Liberal Party
Mayor
UNA mayoralty candidate and former representative Jose Antonio Roxas will still run in the said position, even the Sandiganbayan released the decision to put Roxas, and former Pasay mayor Peewee Trinidad into prison for 10 years, in connection with the graft charges filed against him and Trinidad over the mall construction anomaly in 2004.