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Sara Discaya vows to transform Pasig into a smart city

January 21, 2025 People's Tonight 185 views

PASIG City mayoralty candidate Sara Discaya vowed to improve the lives of every Pasiguenos and create a “government with a hear” and leave no one behind in making Pasig City a “smart city.”

A businesswoman, Discaya is the closest rival of incumbent Mayor Vico Sotto who is running for his third term but his style of leadership and governance administration was being criticized and for prioritizing non-residence of Pasig.

Discaya said that under her “government with heart,” no one would be left behind and no community or barangay would be neglected.

She also promised to provide Pasiguenos with additional infrastructure, health insurance, job creation, free education, and low-cost housing projects.

A construction firm owner, Discaya also promise to construct more infrastructure like bridges and concrete road networks connecting interior barangays to main roads that would be able to fulfill its potential.

“This is a big dream but it should start with a dream because if you do not have a dream, you have no inspiration,” she said.

A neophyte in politics, Discaya was inspired to run for the top post in Pasig after witnessing how majority of Pasiguenos suffer from poverty, red-tape and lack of government assistance.

Known in Pasig as Ate Sarah, she is a businesswoman who frequents underprivileged and low-income communities in the city for her regular charity works.

Her longtime medical mission and distribution of all-form of assistance to needy Pasigueños, who are mostly indigents, have prompted a number of sectoral organizations to convince her to enter politics through the mayoralty race.

Discaya also earlier said should she become the city’s top executive, she will prioritize modernizing the city and transform Pasig into a Smart City, where technology and data are being optimized to improve the life of the Pasigueños.

“Providing house for every Pasiguenos would be a gargantuan task but, but it is not impossible to do,” she said.

Sarah’s action plans and projects will focus on improving the lives of Pasigueños with state-of-the-art infrastructure. This includes Smart hospitals for quality healthcare, Smart schools for quality education, Smart facilities for law enforcers to maintain peace and order, Smart homes with opportunities for economic self-sufficiency, and a Smart city hall that can be constructed with a reasonably lower budget for honest and dedicated public servants.

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