The barangay election 2018 is over and we have the winners. Lancelot Padla grabs today’s headlines among households in barangay Canitoan, as he snatched the 5th spot in the recently concluded counting of the board of canvassers who canvassed the votes at PN Roa Elementary School.
Padla got a total of 1,931 votes.
Also declared winners by the Commissions on Elections (Comelec) were Marlyn Lagumen, 3,323 votes; Allan Yanez, 2,412 votes, Joseph Taboclaon, 2, 081 votes; Lustre, 2,030 votes; Lolito and Callo, 1,718 votes.
For barangay chairman, the incumbent public official Joshua Abragan Taboclaon won by a wide margin over his opponent, also the incumbent barangay kagawad Netnet Macabodbod.
Rise of Padla
There is no stopping to the impressive rise of Lancelot Borja Padla among all aspirants for barangay councilors in Barangay Canitoan.
Just as his own online poster was posted in Facebook during the campaign period, over a hundred people and supporters liked the post in just about 30 minutes. We tried to get Padla’s reactions on the overwhelming likes he got from his FB friends and supporters but he was not available for interview.
One of the reasons people like Padla was that he has clear platforms of government once he got elected to the position.
According to Padla’s programs written in his flyers, he is going to author barangay ordinances that would help create scholarship programs for poor but deserving students. He will also author “Balik Skwela Program” for the poor students of the barangay most especially to sitio Agong, Centro Canitoan and Calaanan Relocation site.
Padla will also author ordinances for Health and Nutrition. Here, he is more focused on the health needs of children and the elderly. Among his priorities include giving free milk support for children and the malnourished kids, and also give free medicines for the elderly people. He will also give priority into giving feeding programs for children on malnutrition problems.
Also among his programs if he gets elected is livelihood for under privileged women, persons with disabilities and senior citizens. He will also conduct consultations how the barangay will be able to help cooperatives, local associations, and transport groups.
