DAVAO CITY – Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio will ask the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod to officially endorse a barangay captain to fill in the vacant city council seat for the third district left by Councilor Bernard Al-ag.
Al-ag assumed as vice mayor of Davao City after Paolo Duterte resigned from the post in December.
Duterte-Carpio bared on Saturday that Barangay Captain Carmelo Clarion of Mulig, Toril will replace the vacant seat left by Al-ag as third district councilor.
“We requested an endorsement from the Hupong sa Tawong Lungsod for Barangay Captain Clarion of Barangay Mulig to appoint him as eighth councilor of the third district,” she said.
Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod is the local political party formed by then-mayor and now President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte-Carpio said Clarion was endorsed by her brother former Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte because Clarion knows the issues in the district.
“Nakita ni Vice Mayor Pulong and sa katong mga tao sa partido nga grounded and experience ni Barangay Captain Clarion because Kapitan siya so kabalo siya sa very basic grassroots issues (Former Vice Mayor Pulong and the other members of the party see the experience of Clarion because he is a barangay captain so he knows the very basic grassroots issues),” Duterte-Carpio said.
She said the experience of Clarion would be useful in the City Council especially in making legislations to regulate the issues and concerns of every barangays in the city.
She said the appointment would be forwarded to President Rodrigo Duterte for his approval since he has the final say.
“Maghulat lang kung unsa ang aksyon sa Office of the President with regard to that pero gi-prepare na nato ang papers (We will just wait for the actions coming from the Office of the President but we already prepared the documents needed),” she said. (Armando Fenequito Jr/PNA)
