Filing of candidacy. GSD File Photo
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By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent

WITHOUT fanfare, Mayor Oscar Moreno, Rep. Rolando Uy of the city’s 1st District, and two other top administration bets in the city yesterday filed their certificates of candidacy before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) based on the superstitious notion that doing it on the 13th day of this month would bring them good luck.

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It was Rep. Uy’s chief of staff, Shiela Lumbatan, who filed the certificates of candidacy of Moreno, Uy and his son Rainer Joaquin, and ex-councilor Edgar Cabanlas before noon at the city office of the Comelec.

Uy’s son is running for vice mayor while Cabanlas is seeking the congressional post in the city’s 2nd District. The mayor and congressmen are seeking reelection. All are running under the administration Liberal Party (LP).

Lumbatan first submitted Rep. Uy’s papers at 8:28 am, followed by Rainer Joaquin’s at 11:55 am, Cabanlas’s at 11:57 am, and Moreno’s at 11:59 am.

City hall spokesperson Maricel Rivera said the four politicians based their decision to file their candidacy certificates yesterday on feng shui numerology.

While the number 13 has been generally associated with misfortune in the country because of western influences, some feng shui practitioners look at 13 as a four when the single digits are added, apparently the same reason why only the top four LP candidates in the city filed yesterday.

Rivera said the rest of the LP candidates in the city would file their certificates this Friday.

Moreno was the eighth politician to file his COC in the city. The first was former barangay chairman  William Guialani of Taglimao, followed by Rhona Canoy, lawyer Evangeline Carrasco, Rep. Uy, independent candidate for councilor Nicolas Elo, the younger Uy, and Cabanlas.

Rivera said Moreno and Cabanlas were prompted to file their certificates of candidacy because members of the Uy family were feng shui practitioners.

She said it was Rep. Uy’s wife Lorna, barangay chairperson of Carmen, who meticulously counted even the letters in the candidates’ names, added up digits, and suggested that they file their certificates of candidacy yesterday.

Lumbatan said it was Rep. Uy who asked her to file his COC on his behalf. “Sukad si Congressman Uy miintra sa politika, ako man gyud  pirmi iyang sogo-on nga mag-file sa iyang COC,” she said.

Lumbatan said Uy also wanted to be the first LP candidate in the city to comply with the Comelec’s documentary requirements, specifically on the 13th day of October.

Lumbatan said Uy also wanted to file his COC without fanfare, and away from the public eye.

But she added that Uy would join other LP candidates for the city council when they file their certificates of candidacy on Friday.

 

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