1988 Naga, Camarines Sur, local elections

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Candidate Jesse Robredo Ramon Roco Party LnB Cory Coalition Alliance PDP–Lakas Running mate Lourdes V. Asence Anton Tadeo Dy-Prieto Popular vote 14,086 13,139 Percentage 36.12% 33.69%

Mayor before election Carlos del Castillo KBL Elected mayor Jesse Robredo LnB

Vice Mayoral election

Candidate Lourdes V. Asence Efren G. Santos Party LnB Independent Alliance PDP–Lakas Popular vote 11,430 10,394 Percentage 69.21% 27.82%

Vice Mayor before election Siegfredo Obias KBL Elected Vice Mayor Lourdes V. Asence LnB

Local elections were held in Naga City, Camarines Sur, on January 18, 1988, as part of the nationwide local elections. Voters elected the mayor, vice mayor, and members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (city council). These were the first local elections after the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution and the ratification of the 1987 Constitution. ^[1]

Contents

• Background
• Results
• Mayoral election
• Vice mayoral election
• City Council election
• References

Background

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The 1988 elections marked a major turning point in Naga City politics. The election was the first held under the new democratic system following the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos and the rise of President Corazon Aquino. The former ruling party, Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL), had been discredited, and new coalitions emerged at the local level.

In Naga, long-time political kingmaker Luis Villafuerte backed his nephew, Jesse Robredo, then a young technocrat and director of the Bicol River Basin Development Program. Robredo ran under the newly formed Lakas ng Bansa party. In opposition was the Cory Coalition, led by the brothers of Senator Raul Roco and Representative Ciriaco Alfelor, who sought to challenge Villafuerte's influence. Ramon Roco, Raul’s brother, ran for mayor, while the Liberal Party and other independents also fielded candidates.

Robredo won the mayoralty by a narrow margin, becoming the youngest city mayor in the Philippines at the time. However, his party secured only two out of ten council seats; the rest were won by candidates affiliated with the Cory Coalition. Despite this, Robredo would go on to build a strong reform-oriented administration and was later recognized as one of the most effective local executives in the country. ^[2]

Vice mayoral candidate Antonio G. Dy-Prieto, a businessman, would later be appointed by President Joseph Estrada as his Presidential Assistant on Bicol Affairs in 1998, a position in which he was alleged to have engaged in sending jueteng money to Chavit Singson. ^[3]

Results

References