Everything’s set for Wednesday’s scheduled turnover for the newly-elected officials of Negros Oriental. {{more}}
Outgoing Dumaguete City Mayor Agustin Perdices will do his final act as the City’s chief executive, which is to swear in Mayor-elect Manuel Sagarbarria, Vice Mayor-elect Alan Gel Cordova and the 10 members of the City Council at 8:30 a.m.
Perdices will then attend his own oath-taking at the Negros Oriental Convention Center at 9 a.m. In an unprecedented political event throughout the Philippines, a Vice-Governor-elect will assume as Provincial Governor in a matter of minutes, bringing up all the other elected Board Members one step up the seniority ladder.
This is because of the vacancy in the governorship created by the June 13 death of reelected Governor Emilio Macias II.
Perdices will be sworn in as Vice Governor by RTC Branch 32 Judge Eric Maxino and he will be sworn in as Governor by RTC Executive Judge Fe Lualhati Bustamante.
Senior Board Member Roel Degamo, on the other hand, will also take two oaths of office–one for Board Member and another one for Vice-Governor, to fill the vacancy created by Perdices’ succession of the governorship.
Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Eddie Aba said that the Lakas CMD, the party of Degamo, will name a replacement to fill in the vacancy in the Provincial Board. The replacement will be appointed by the President through the
Executive Secretary, Aba said.
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