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#HalalanResults: Sister beats brother for Agusan del Norte House seat

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MANILA -- Agusan del Norte Governor Angelica Amante-Matba defeated her brother Erlpe John Amante in his reelection bid as representative of their province&#x27;s second district in the House of Representatives.Amante-Matba got 120,068 votes, almost twice more than the 69,623 votes for her brother, according to a tally from the Commission on Elections that has counted 100 percent of the votes. <div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/entertainment/05/14/agusan1.png"/></figure></div>Amante-Matba backed the mayoral run in Cabadbaran of her brother&#x27;s wife Judy Chin-Amante against his alleged mistress Katrina Marie Mortola. Chin-Amante secured 26,585 votes against Mortola&#x27;s 18,891. The presumptive new mayor was quoted as saying in a Philippine Star report last year that her husband supposedly introduced Mortala as his “<a href="https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/08/09/1486372/lawmakers-wife-run-vs-husbands-alleged-mistress">soulmate</a>” as he went around barangays. Erlpe Amante is a member of the Liberal Party while his sister belongs to PDP-Laban party chaired by President Rodrigo Duterte. Click <a href="https://halalanresults.abs-cbn.com/local/quezon-city">here </a>for ABS-CBN&#x27;s election results.

Agusan del Norte Governor Angelica Amante-Matba defeated her brother Erlpe John Amante in his reelection bid as Congress representative of their province's second district.

Agusan del Norte Governor Angelica Amante-Matba defeated her brother Erlpe John Amante in his reelection bid as Congress representative of their province's second district.