THE MoNoPal team staged Friday its opening salvo, at the Bacolod Reclamation Area beside SM City Mall.
The team was led by Lakas-Kampi-CMD mayoralty candidate Representative Monico Puentevella, congressional candidate Renecito Novero and vice mayoralty candidate Ann Marie Palermo. As the start of local campaign period Friday, the MoNoPal team held its caravan from the three points of convergence in the City of Bacolod with their supporters from different barangays. Puentevella led the Lopue’s East group, Novero in Bangga Pepsi, Bata and Palermo in Sum-ag. Puentevella said the accomplishments of their team speak highly of their qualifications to lead and revive the city from malgovernance and indebtedness compared to the shallow bench of the rival camps. Under the MoNoPal Team for city councilor candidates include incumbent Councilor Catalino Alisbo, former councilors Archie Baribar, Bobbie Lucasan, Elmer Sy and Sonia Verdeflor, Rotary leaders Nanette Garcia and Elcid Familiaran, who was a many-time barangay captain, businessman Jose Marie Regalado, lawyer and former DILG regional director Lorney Dilag, former Bacolod City College president Norma Juarez and top broadcasters Marlon Solidum and Buen Gallenero. Puentevella is backed by his solid performance as Bacolod City congressman from 2001 until June 2010. He delivered basic social and health services to over 60,000 Bacoleños in the City of Bacolod through his “Monico Kabuhi Ko” (MKK) program, supporters said. Puentevella said during the campaign he had sent hundreds of students from indigent families to college, widened Bacolod roads and highways, built new classrooms and day care centers, fast tracked the operation of the new Bacolod-Silay airport as the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, and assisted 70,000 residents affected by floods and gave relief assistance to over 10,000 people fire victims in the city. Furthermore, Novero served as three-term Bacolod City councilor in 1988-1998, and vice mayor from 2004-2007. He was the main author of the proposed Squatters Welfare Ordinance, and championed the teachers’ ECOLA and scored series of victories up to the Supreme Court. Palermo, in the meantime, is a multi-awarded public servant, civic leader and NGO volunteer for 20 years. The eldest daughter of the late Judge Edmundo Lingco Palermo and Atty. Thelma Villanueva, the former city councilor author 26 city ordinances centered on strengthening families and promoting safety of homes and city streets, as well as giving poor residents access to education. Merlinda A. Pedrosa Sun star
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