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+ May 17, 2021 Rep. Eduardo Gullas (Cebu, 1st District) is not seeking re-election next year, ending an illustrious political career that spanned more than half a century. A source very close to the family said that Gullas planned his retirement as early as in 2019, fifty years after he won as congressman of the district, then still known as the 3rd, by a slim margin of 16 votes over the late Antonio Cuenco. A formal announcement will be made after he has met with his political leaders, I was told.
Eddiegul is the only surviving member of the delegation from Cebu to the 7th Congress which was supposed to serve a four-year term starting in a January, 1970 but was unable to do so because Ferdinand Marcos abolished it when he declared martial law in 1972.
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+ April 29, 2021 The last decade has seen the emergence of young political leaders in Cebu. Among our city mayors, the youngest is Talisay’s Samsam Gullas who is only 36; he was 29 when he was first elected to Congress, representing the first district in 2013. Last time I heard, he is doing very well as Talisay’s chief executive.
A little older than Samsam, Mayors Kristine Vanessa Chiong of Naga and Carlo Martinez of Bogo are barely in their forties. Mandaue’s Jonas Cortes and Lapu-Lapu’s Ahong Chan are comparatively older, but they’re only 54 and 53 years old, respectively.
On the other end of the spectrum, another Gullas holds the distinction of being the oldest and currently longest-serving public official in Cebu. With the death of former senator Sonny Osmeña early this year, of former representatives Tony Cuenco and Tito Calderon last year, and the retirement of former representative Pablo Garcia in 2013, Eddie Gullas, Samsam’s grandfather
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go recognized the sacrifices and selfless service of healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic during the launch of the country’s 103rd Malasakit Center at the Carcar Provincial Hospital (CPH) in Carcar City, Cebu on Tuesday, April 27.
The CPH is the
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+ March 16, 2021
“I also want to change the messaging in regard to Covid. The messaging has to change for us to be successful in this fight.” Talisay City Mayor Gerald Anthony “Samsam” Gullas Jr.
ONE of the better performing local government units in Cebu in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic is Talisay City. The only time it suffered a setback in its level of quarantine last year was only because of its limited capacity in terms of available tertiary critical care. Other than that, the City has kept its number of cases to a trickle.
Going the rounds recently is a video message of Mayor Gerald Anthony “Samsam” Gullas Jr., who fell through dire straits as a symptomatic Covid-19 positive early in February.