• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
The election of new set of officers of the Liga ng mga Barangay in Negros Occidental is slated on Jan. 12 at the Seda Hotel in Bacolod City.
It will be part of the simultaneous conduct of Liga polls nationwide.
Teodora Sumagaysay, provincial director of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-Negros Occidental, said yesterday that the DILG will oversee the election process, in the presence of representatives from the Commission on Elections and civil society.
Victorias City Barangay 2 chairman Richard Julius Sablan was reported as a frontrunner to lead the Liga ng mg Barangay in Negros Occidental.
The next president will succeed Juvy Pepello, who already completed her term as barangay chairwoman of Barangay 9, also in Victorias City.
The Liga president sits as an ex-officio member of the Provincial Board.
As agreed earlier by Love Negros and United Negros Alliance, the heads of the provincial Sangguniang Kabataan and Liga ng mga Barangay should come from cities of San Carlos and Victorias, respectively. | GB
