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Dasmariñas is Cavite’s largest city and has the biggest electorate of any city or town in the province.
Is the tide turning for Vice President Robredo’s presidential campaign?
The recent switch to Robredo of prominent politicians who were affiliated previously with other presidential aspirants seems to suggest that it does. After Ping Lacson’s former party, Partido Reporma, officially announced its switch to Robredo, a trail of further ‘political flipping’ looks poised to ensue.
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The most recent to hop on that trend is the Barzagas of the vote-rich Dasmariñas City. During their official proclamation rally yesterday, March 26, incumbent City Mayor Jenny Barzaga and incumbent Cavite 4th District Elpidio Barzaga Jr. both declared Robredo as their presidential bet, during the said event. Interestingly, both Barzagas are running under the National Union Party (NUP), which recently pledged support for the 2016 defeated vice-presidentiable Bongbong Marcos’s presidential campaign. Elpidio Barzaga Jr., in fact, is the current NUP president, which makes his endorsement of Robredo, shocking.
Elpidio Barzaga Jr., who is gunning for re-election as his district’s representative, is contending with the independent candidate Osmundo Calupad. Jenny Barzaga, on the other hand, will face Nelson Remulla, who is running as an independent candidate.
It can be recalled that Cavite’s governor Jonvic Remulla promised his presidential bet, Bongbong Marcos, 800,000 votes come May 9 elections. But with the Barzaga flipping sides, it seems that the Marcos loyalist governor will have a hard time delivering what he promised. Of course, Barzagas’s endorsement of Robredo does not necessarily mean that the more than 400,000 votes of the city will automatically go for the lone female presidentiable, but the endorsement alone should give her an upper hand in the city and the congressional district.
Should Robredo secure a lead in Dasmariñas, that can prove to be detrimental to Marcos’s shot at winning in Cavite, which is currently ranked second (behind Cebu) among most vote-rich provinces in the country. In the 2016 elections, Robredo lost the province to the former dictator’s son by more than 150,000 votes.
