UNA show of force today
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COSCOLLUELA ON DEC .1
BY CARLA GOMEZ

It will be a show of force when the United Negros Alliance congressional and provincial candidates led by their gubernatorial bet Alfredo Marañon Jr. and his runningmate Genaro Alvarez Jr. file their certificates of candidacy before the Commission on Elections this afternoon.

The UNA officials, accompanied by mayors down to councilors, supporters and drumbeaters, will join motorcades from the north and south that will converge at the Bacolod Pavillon Resort Hotel at 2 p.m. for a short program before proceeding to the provincial COMELEC office to file their COCS at 3 p.m. today.

About 100 vehicles will join the motorcade from the north led by Marañon and another 100 from the south will be led by Alvarez, UNA organizers said.

The Grupo Progresso under the Nationalist People's Coalition Party yesterday presented their slate for the 2010 elections composed mostly of incumbent city officials, which includes six incumbent councilors, six lawyers and two doctors.

Former undersecretary Anthony Golez Jr. is running for congressman, while Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson are seeking re-election.

Running for councilors are Councilors Homer Bais, Alex Paglumotan, Dindo Ramos, Roberto Rojas, Al Victor Espino and Napoleon Cordova, Secretary to the Mayor Vicente Petierre III, businessman Carlos Jose Lopez, lawyers Caesar Distrito and Marie Crystal May Vega and Juan Miguel Estrella.

The Kabankalan City government is appealing a Regional Trial Court order for it to return the property where its old city market stands to the heirs of its original owner, city lawyer Maphilindo Polvora said yesterday.

Kabankalan RTC Judge Henry Arles on Oct. 26 ordered the Kabankalan City government represented by Mayor Pedro Zayco to return the property on which the old market stands to the heirs of the late Jose Coloso, represented by Encarnacion Coloso.

The claim of Kabankalan City that Lot 2510 (111) was donated to it by Jose and Anatalia Coloso through a deed of donation is unsupported by evidence, Arles said in his 9-page decision, a copy of which was furnished to the DAILY STAR by Coloso's lawyer Joemax Ortiz said.