Twelve mayor, VM bets
in Negros sure winners
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Twelve candidates for mayor and vice mayor in Negros Occidental are sure winners in 2013.

They are running unopposed, Negros Occidental Elections Supervisor Jessie Suarez said yesterday.

The six unopposed mayoral bets are incumbents Gerardo Pomar Valmayor Jr. (NPC) of San Carlos City, David Albert Rubin Lacson (NPC/UNA) – EB Magalona, Ramon Diasnes Torres (NPC) – Bago City, Isidro Perez Zayco (NPC) – Kabankalan City, John Rey Dadivas Tabujara (NPC) – Cauayan, and newcomer Miguel Consing Peña (NPC) – Pulupandan, COMELEC records show.

Disqualify nuisance,
Sayson asks
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Mayoralty candidate Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson said he will file a petition before the Commission on Elections to declare fruit vendor Julius Soriano Sayson as a nuisance candidate.

Julius Sayson, 32, of Brgy. Granada, Bacolod City, filed his certificate of candidacy for mayor of Bacolod City at the COMELEC Office 5 minutes before the 5 p.m. deadline Friday.

He will be running against Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson of the Nationalist People’s Coalition-Grupo Progeso and former Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella.

A copy of the Commission on Audit decision approving the sale and lease of the 7.7-hectare Negros Occidental provincial government property in Bacolod City to AyalaLand Inc. was delivered to ALI officials in Manila by assistant Provincial Legal Officer Mary Ann Manayon-Lamis Saturday, Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. said yesterday.

She also delivered a letter from the provincial government asking ALI to reconsider its decision to disengage from the Capitol project, he said.

In an official statement issued Friday, however, ALI had said that, while it welcomes the COA approval of the Deed of Conditional Sale and Contract of Lease between the provincial government and Ayala, there is still a pending case before the Bacolod Regional Trial Court on the award of the property that could still be elevated to the higher courts.