The team of former Bacolod Vice Mayor Renecito Novero, who call themselves the “Magnificent Seven”, filed their certificates of candidacy yesterday at the Commission on Elections Office in Bacolod City accompanied by their family, friends and supporters.
Novero is running as an independent candidate for vice mayor of Bacolod together with Councilors El Cid Familiaran, Archie Baribar, Sonya Verdeflor and Elmer Sy, and businessmen Hermilo LIzares and Robert Francis Coscolluela, who are all running for councilors. Novero and the incumbent councilors, who are members of the Liberal Party, ran in the last elections under the Grupo Serbisyo team of former Bacolod Rep.Monico Puentevella. Novero said they have no candidate for mayor or congressman but his group is free to make their own choice. They were supported by graduating Councilor Catalino Alisbo and some LP officials during the filing of their COC's. yesterday Novero said his group is committed to seven virtues for good governance - integrity, sincerity, transparency, honesty, simplicity, accountability and trust. He said he chose the six candidates for councilor because they have the same conviction and vision for Bacolod City . They have a crusade for the birth of a new governance they call the “ Bacolod renaissance,” he added. Novero said they want people to expect competence, efficiency and integrity in the delivery of public service. Familiaran, the number one councilor, said he is running for re-election on the basis of his performance. He said that out of the 118 sessions held, he has recorded a perfect attendance, had authored 24 quality ordinance, most of them pro-poor, and also authored over 100 resolutions. Verdeflor said she wants to continue her advocacies especially for the women and children so she is bidding for a second term, while Baribar said his track record will speak for itself and that he will continue to be a fiscalizer in Bacolod Novero said that when he was chairman of the Committee on Education, he had authored a resolution creating the Bacolod City College , he was lawyer of the teachers when they fought for their Emergency Cost of Living Allowance during the Verdeflor administration, authored an ordinance creating the Ang Bacolodnon song, among others. Sy, said “Less talk, more action,” when asked why he is seeking re-election. Asked about his stand on the “BREDCO issue”, Novero said his interest is for the city and its people. He said he is only a “humble lawyer” of one of the “best things” that had happened to Bacolod since BREDCO expanded and gave the city a facelift, additional income, investors, employment, and businesses like SM, among others.*CGS BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO VISAYAN DAILY STAR
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