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June 09, 2021
I CONSIDER 1995 as my banner year. It was in this elections when Edgardo D. Pamintuan won by a landslide together with Francis Blueboy Nepomuceno as running mate. His 10 candidates in the council slate won nine seats. I placed number one. The young Jonjon Lazatin took the last spot. Out of the 10 elected and be member of the City Council, nine emerged victorious. We almost swept the polls.
But in the 1998 elections, it became an entirely different story. There was an unexpected turn of events. Mayor Ed Pamintuan and Vice Mayor Blueboy suddenly showed no interest in the mayorship and both filed their certificates of candidacy as congressional candidates. The two went to grueling hustings and slugged it out fiercely. (Blueboy won the race). Our group was left holding an empty bag, so to speak, without a standard bearer. That was the situation.