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Priest wins mayoral race in Davao De Oro

Chrislen Bulosan, ABS-CBN News

<p>MABINI, Davao de Oro — Father Emerson Luego of the Diocese of Tagum was proclaimed the newly-elected Mayor of the town of Mabini, Wednesday.</p><p>Luego, who ran under PDP-Laban, won with 11,419 votes against his three other opponents.</p><p>His closest rival, incumbent Mayor Reynaldo Dayanghirang who is a member of the Hugpong ng Pagbabago regional party, got 10,210 votes.</p><p>As per the laws of church, priests who will be entering politics will be suspended from priesthood.</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/emerson.luego/posts/2171124079709548" data-width="auto"> </div><p>In 2009, Luego also ran as Mayor of Sto. Tomas, Davao del Norte but lost.</p><p>Two other priests also ran in the 2022 polls — Fr. Emmanuel Alparce of the Diocese of Sorsogon is a newly-elected councilor of Boracay and Fr. Granwell Pitapit, who ran as mayor of Camarines Sur but lost the race.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="alt" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/05/12/davao-de-oro-result.png"/></figure></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j0gWuguNDdc?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

MABINI, Davao de Oro — Father Emerson Luego of the Diocese of Tagum was proclaimed the newly-elected Mayor of the town of Mabini, Wednesday.

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Priest wins mayoral race in Davao De Oro

Chrislen Bulosan,

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Published May 12, 2022 10:56 AM PHT

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