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 She may be leading by a wide margin in the District I congressional race based on the series of surveys conducted by various independent groups, but Beng Climaco is not complacent and satisfied.
“We are working very hard and we work not only for ourselves but for the rest of the members of the (LDP) Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino,” Climaco said even as she expressed elation over the encouraging survey results.
She thanked the respondents for preferring her than her rival but hoped that the high preference rating in the surveys could be translated into votes come May 14. Climaco, who is the incumbent vice mayor and presiding officer believes that name recall and more so performance are factors that contribute to the high preference rating. “As I have stressed earlier on, I am offering my service to the people but I want them to judge me based on my merits and accomplishments,” she said. Since she became a member of the City Council in 1998, Climaco has initiated number of resolutions and authored numerous ordinances that are now being implemented in the city. One of the gifts which the City Council under Climaco’s leadership can give to the people of Zamboanga is the passage of 109 ordinances and thousands of resolutions that caused the city to be chosen as the 2 nd Most Outstanding Sangguniang Panlungsod among the highly urbanized cities in the country recently. The recognition given two weeks ago is in line with the 2006 Legislative Awards annually being sponsored by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine Councilors League (PCL). Cebu City topped the award. Region wide, the City Council is number one in terms of performance. “We never expected to be chosen as the second best out of the 15 highly urbanized cities in the country,” according to Climaco. Because of her satisfactory performance, Climaco was also the cited by the Civil Service Commission as the Regional Outstanding Lady Executive (ROLEX) late last year. Her initiative to come up with an enabling law for Republic Act 7192 otherwise known as the Women and Nation Building Act is considered as one of the highlights of Climaco’s sterling performance. “As a result of the enactment of the law, the local government unit then under the leadership of the late Mayor Maria Clara Lobregat and later under the stewardship of Mayor Celso Lobregat and the Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Point has been able to implement numerous projects for the benefit and welfare of the different sectors in the city”. The mutual support and cooperation between the legislative and the executive branches of the city has caused the recognition of Zamboanga by the Office of the President through the Galing Pook award and the United Nations Development Program through the trailblazing award under the Medium Development Goal Award, the District I congressional aspirant emphasized. (PR)
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