| Bautista buries ‘hatchet’ versus Cagas |
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| Wednesday, 25 June 2008 | |
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House Representative for the Second District of Davao del Sur Franklin Bautista urged his followers and sympathizers to throw their support to the administration of Governor Douglas Cagas in the name of reconciliation and to push the province towards development.
Rep. Bautista expressed his reconciliatory gesture to the current provincial leadership when he attended the opening program of the 41st founding anniversary of Davao del Sur on Monday where he confirmed reports over the merging of local Lakas and Kampi political parties before the huge crowd at the capitol gym on Monday.
Cagas is the provincial chairman of Lakas, while Bautista is also the provincial chairman of Kampi.
Bautista said he will convince his brothers to ‘bury their hatchets’ against the Cagases and join the political bandwagon of Lakas-Kampi.
On the May 14, 2007 national and local elections the, then, Second District Congressman Claude Bautista – the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) chairman and younger brother of Franklin threw his bid for the gubernatorial post but Cagas won the elections.
Former Governor Benjamin Bautista, the concurrent mayor of Malita, Davao del Sur is also an NPC leader in the province.
Prior to the declaration of the winning gubernatorial bet in 2007, Cagas led a protest action at the provincial capitol grounds in Barangay Matti, Digos City accusing the Bautistas of cheating, and the Comelec of delaying his proclamation.
It sparked a better relationship between the Cagas and Bautista clans, not until the previous visit of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Davao City that resulted to the reconciliation of Cagas and Franklin Bautista following the merger of Lakas and Kampi.
“I have to convince them so that there would be no hitches in pushing this province towards development,” Franklin said during his speech.
The Cagases is now the concurrent political big wig in the First District of Davao del Sur holding top political posts, while the Second District is also considered the bailiwick of the Bautistas.
The governor’s son, Marc Cagas is the congressman of the First District, while his wife Mercedez Cagas is a member of the provincial board.
Gary Cagas, the elder brother of the governor is the village chief of Zone-111, Digos City. Joseph Cagas, Gary’s son is the number councilor of Digos City.
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