Davao City Department Heads

Here are the Department Heads of the Davao City Local Government as appointed by Mayor Sara Duterte:

City Administrator – Zuleika Lopez
Assistant City Administrator and Head of the Investment and Promotion Center (IPC) – Jason Magnaye
Asisstant City Administrator for Administration – Erwin Alparaque
OIC of the Economic Enterprise Office – Francisco Valez

City Planning and Development Office – Roberto Alabado

Secretary to City Council – Margarito dela Cruz

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Davao City Local Government Officials

Here is the complete list of the local politicians who were elected by the people during the May 10, 2010 elections:

City Executives

Mayor: Sara “Inday Sara” Z. Duterte – Carpio
Vice – Mayor: Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte

District Representatives

First District: Karlo “Kaka” Nograles
Second District: Mylene Garcia
Third District: Isidro “Sid” Ungab

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Prospero “Boy” Nograles and the 2010 Davao City Elections

Speaker Prospero “Boy” Nograles aka “Nogie” has filed an election protest against winning Davao City mayoralty candidate Sara Z. Duterte and some local COMELEC Officials.

Nograles ran under Lakas-Kampi for the position of Davao City Mayor during the local elections in May 10, 2010. He got over 160,000. Duterte, the winning candidate already proclaimed by the COMELEC, got more than 388,000 votes.

According to Nograles’ complaint, Mayor Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte (incumbent mayor and Sara’s father) has deployed more than one hundred city hall employees to COMELEC offices in the city. That is just one of the allegations stated by Nograles’ camp in his complaint.

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Team Nograles Super Premium Bihon

I saw the photo above on my Facebook News Feed. Didn’t know Team Nograles now manufactures Super Premium Bihon.

Royal Rumble in the Davao City Local Elections 2010

With the end of Rodrigo Duterte’s eligibility to run as City Mayor, the mayoral race for 2010 is going to be a very interesting one. The last time Duterte was ineligible, his longtime City Administrator and one-term Vice-Mayor Benjamin de Guzman ran for Mayor while Duterte ran as Representative of the First District of Davao City (a post currently held by Speaker Prospero Nograles). They both won. After three years, they had a falling out, Duterte ran again for Mayor against de Guzman.

This time, Duterte’s daughter, Sara Duterte, current City Vice-Mayor, is being groomed to run as Mayor for next year’s elections. It is rumored that the elder Duterte, former Vice-Mayor Luis Bonguyan, or 1st District Councilor Mabel Sunga-Acosta will run as Vice-Mayor with Sara under the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod Party of Rodrigo Duterte.

Acosta, is one of the six incumbent First District Councilors already ineligible to run for the City Council in 2010. The incumbents in the 1st District who will be ineligible to reelection are Acosta, Leo Avila, Nilo Abellera, Peter Lavina, Angela Librado-Trinidad, and Bonifacio Militar. Several council seats will also be left vacant in the Second and Third Districts. Some of the incumbent councilors are also rumored to run either as Vice-Mayor or District Representatives.

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People’s March Davao vs Con Ass

Yesterday, different sectors of Davao City and nearby cities and provinces converged at Freedom Park and marched to Rizal Park in order to protest the passage of HR 1109 and the so-called Constitutional Assembly of the Congress.

And like a slap on the face, one of the battlecries during the rally was this…

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Dear Congressman Nograles

Dear Congressman Prospero Nograles,

SHAME ON YOU!

You were elected, virtually unopposed and by a large margin, by the people of the First District of Davao City. But your actions as our “representative” do not reflect the needs and aspirations of your constituents. Rather, you have acted on your own accord to serve your own political aspirations, those of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and your respective political parties, and allies. SHAME ON YOU!

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What Now on the Vigilante Killings?

The report of the Human Rights Watch alleges that local government officials of Davao City and the police are involved in the vigilante killings of local criminals. Similarly, the Commission of Human Rights (CHR) have been conducting hearings on the involvement of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte and other officials with the said killings.

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