Former Bacolod Councilor Lyndon Caña filed his certificate of candidacy yesterday at the Commission on Elections Office in Bacolod City and will run as an independent candidate for congressman.
Caña, a lawyer, also ran as an independent candidate for vice mayor in 2007 but lost to Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson of the Nationalist People’s Coalition-Grupo Progreso.
This time, he is running against incumbent Bacolod Rep. Anthony Golez Jr., congressional candidate Mayor Evelio Leonardia and retired teacher Ely Sergio Palma.
Mario Gerona Jr. of the Liberal Party, who is running as an independent candidate for councilor of Bacolod, also filed his COC yesterday together with Caña. They were accompanied by their spouses, Ann Caña and Lerma Rose Gerona.
Caña said this has not been an easy decision to make so he consulted his spiritual advisers, family, closest friends and some concerned citizens.
“I decided that Bacolod needs a third choice assuming that there are two strong incumbents to choose from,” he said.
He is running as an independent candidate and if given a chance to serve, Bacolod will have a representative who will directly owe his gratitude to the people, he added.
Caña said that as he has done in the past three elections, he will not buy votes since he is committed to the strength and the conscience of the voters.
“I have very high respect for the birth right of suffrage. The right of suffrage is a birth right of democracy and Christianity,” he said.
Caña said he is a litigation lawyer and Congress is a place for debate, discussion and deliberation. He said people will not be disappointed if they will have a trial lawyer representative in Congress.
Meanwhile, Gerona said he filed his COC since he was nominated by the women’s group and young Liberals who believe in the participation of the party in the 2013 elections.
He said “I decided to join Caña and it is the decision of our group to support him because we believe he deserves to be in Congress and that he can stand for the people.” They have nominated Caña to become a member of the Liberal Party, he added.
Caña, however, said it is not that he decided not to accept the nomination of the LP but it was something internal to the party. He said it may have something to do with the LP-Nationalist People’s Coalition alliance. He was asked to submit his bio-data but somewhere along the way there were complications internally, he added.*CGS back
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