Voters urged to choose ideal barangay leaders wisely
PASIG CIity Mayor Vico Sotto urged voters in the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) to pick the newer candidate or the candidate who has not spent so much during the campaigns.
Sotto made the call during the flag-raising ceremony at the city hall on Monday. He clarified that he will not endorse candidates in the upcoming (BSKE) as part of the administration’s push against patronage politics in the city.
“Di ko naman sinasabi na masama magendorse o masama na may kasamang mayor ang kapitan, pero sa ngayon po, sa puntong ito sa kasaysayan natin, sa aking opinyon, [sa] pagpapakilala natin ng pagbabago, mas maganda po na ang mayor hindi muna magdadala ng mga kandidato sa barangay level. Ang mayor hindi po muna mageendorso ng mga kapitan o kagawad,” Sotto said.
He stressed that if the government truly wants to introduce progressive change in the city wherein they are “breaking the culture of fear and patronage politics,” they need to take an “extreme stance.”
He said that BSKE candidates are free to use “Giting ng Pasig,” the name of the alliance he campaigned under during the 2022 elections, since he does not own a trademark to it, citing Councilor Quin Cruz as the originator of the name.
