Anahawan mayor is new LMP-Southern Leyte Chapter president

By BONG PEDALINO
July 26, 2010

BARANGAY DONGON, Maasin City  –  It’s Mayor Roberto Loquinte of Anahawan town.

The Southern Leyte Chapter of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP), in a gathering of sixteen out of the eighteen municipal Mayors in Governor Damian Mercado’s Farm Resort here, voted literally in unison the second-termer chief executive of Anahawan, one of six towns situated in the pacific area of the province.

This was learned from former Tanauan Mayor and now Leyte Provincial Board Member Roque Tiu, who emerged from a closed door meeting a few minutes before noon on Saturday.

Board Member Tiu told PIA his presence in the election was more on supervision by virtue of his being an Executive Board Member of the national LMP.

As gleaned from a copy of Tiu’s staff, here is the complete list of the LMP Officers in Southern Leyte: President, Mayor Roberto Loquinte (Anahawan); Vice-President, Ricardo Borces (Padre Burgos); Secretary, Oliver Ranque (Libagon); Treasurer, Fe Edillo (Macrohon); Auditor, Evelyn Lee (Hinundayan); PRO, Melchor Petracorta (Limasawa).

Directors: Romeo Gomez (Hinunangan), Samson Gamutan (San Francisco), Celsa Estrella (Pintuyan), Matias Ruales (Bontoc), Manuel Labrador (Silago), Federico Flores (San Juan), Rico Rentuza (Saint Bernard), William Yu (San Ricardo).

Members: Agustin Escano (Tomas Oppus), Sherlita Chong (Liloan), Allan Go (Malitbog), Sheffered Tan (Sogod).

Only Mayor Rentuza of Saint Bernard, who was reportedly out of the country and Sogod Mayor Tan were unable to attend.  There was no word on why Tan was not around.

Gov. Mercado was also not around when the election was in progress, but he arrived a few minutes before twelve noon and conferred closed doors with the Mayors for more than twenty minutes.

Mayor Loquinte took over the position held by former Bontoc Mayor, now Vice-Mayor, Pete Fustanes.