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The former speaker is currently at third place in the Davao del Norte vice gubernatorial race
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Outgoing Davao del Norte 1st District Representative and former speaker Pantaleon Alvarez lost his vice governor bid in his province. The daughter of his former ally, Clarice Jubahib, was instead proclaimed winner in the vice gubernatorial race on Tuesday, May 13. She got 223,596 votes (31.17%).
Based on partial and unofficial results sourced from the Comelec Media Server as of 9:30 am on Wednesday, May 14, Alvarez is in third place with 136,239 votes. This constitutes 18.99% of votes cast.
Alvarez, who ran under Partido para sa Demokratikong Reporma, was defeated by the incumbent governor’s daughter who ran under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s Partido Federal ng Pilipinas.
Lakas’ Tete So is at second place with 166,489 votes or 23.21%. The numbers are based on 97.36% of processed election results.
The former speaker will conclude his third and last term as lawmaker by June 30. He held the post for nine straight years — three straight terms — from 2016 to 2025. He also served in the same position from 1998 to 2001. After his term in 2001, he served for a year as transportation secretary.
Incumbent governor Edwin Jubahib used to be allies with Alvarez. In fact, Jubahib previously worked as the former speaker’s personal assistant.
Mindanao-based Newsline Philippines earlier reported that Jubahib declined to support Alvarez’s bid for governor, signaling the rift between the two allies. The tension further escalated when Alvarez chose to run against his former ally’s daughter.
Alvarez was a long-time ally of former president Rodrigo Duterte. Under the former chief executive, he was chosen as speaker of the House of Representatives, but was ousted two years later, in 2018.
In 2020, Alvarez quit from his post as PDP’s secretary general, a position he held for nearly five years. PDP is Duterte’s national party. The following year, he distanced himself from Duterte.
During the 2022 presidential election, Alvarez endorsed former vice president Leni Robredo for president after his party dropped former senator Ping Lacson as its standard bearer.
Fast forward to 2024, the Department of Justice under Marcos ordered an investigation after Alvarez called on the Armed Forces of the Philippines to abandon the sitting president amid the word war between President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the Dutertes.
In the House he once led, Alvarez became subject of an ethics complaint. Instead of a suspension, his colleagues censured him as punishment for his allegedly seditious statement. – Rappler.com
