As candidates started filing their Certificates of Candidacy for the May 2022 elections, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson called on his fellow officials in Negros Occidental to focus more on how to overcome and survive the COVID-19 pandemic and not much on politics.
Lacson stressed that there are so many things to be done still.
Incumbent officials do not have the luxury of spending time on anything else, other than doing their jobs properly and judiciously for the province and the people, he said.
Lacson, Vice Governor Jeffrey Ferrer and almost all incumbent board members, who are either affiliated with Love Negros or the United Negros Alliance, filed their CoCs on Oct. 1, by batches, at the Provincial Capitol Social Hall in Bacolod City, where the Comelec is temporarily holding office, since its workplace has limited space that is not ideal amid the COVID pandemic.
“Our current situation requires unity among leaders. Our efforts should be focused not much on politics, but on how we can overcome and survive the pandemic,” the governor said.
Almost all 31 mayors and other officials in Negros Occidental already pledged their full support to the Lacson-Ferrer tandem, which targets to continue the Abanse Negrense Development Agenda.
Despite the pandemic, Lacson and Ferrer, in separate press conferences on Oct. 1, said that the Abanse Negrense agenda has proven to be effective in bringing countless developments to the province.
“I have served you to the best of my capabilities as your governor. Today, I submit myself to you as I seek to serve you for another term, and I hope that together, we shall overcome this pandemic and achieve all our aspirations as a people together,” Lacson told Negrenses after he filed his COC. — GB
