Floydelia Diasen, 54, former vice chair of the health and scienceinstitute of the Kalinga Agricultural State College, will become thefirst woman governor of Kalinga since 1995 when the province wasseparated from Apayao.
She beat Rep. Laurence Wacnang and lawyer Warren Luyaben in the race.
Diasen, a replacement candidate, said the sympathy votes generated bythe April 7 murder of her husband helped her win the top elective postin the province.
“This is a victory for the people of Kalinga. Their call for changeof leadership and advocacy against election fraud has worked for us,”she said.
Diasen received 52,897 votes while Wacnang got 18,721 votes.Luyaben, president of Integrated Bar of the Philippines in Kalinga,received 441 votes.
Easing tension
The count did not include votes from Tinglayan town, which have yet to be canvassed.
The provincial board of canvassers (PBOC), chaired by lawyer RicardoLampac, proclaimed Diasen to ease the tension among supporters of localcandidates who started massing up in front of the provincial capitol.
The PBOC said the votes from Tinglayan, with 9,447 voters, would not affect the result in the gubernatorial race.
Efraim Lassam, Wacnang’s lawyer, said the lawmaker had sent acongratulatory message to Diasen to ease the tension in the province.
“The people have spoken. Let us prove to them that we are worthy of this mandate,” said Diasen.
The race for the lone congressional district seat of Kalinga, however, has yet to be concluded because votes from Tinglayan would decide the eventual winner. **source inquirer.netBlogged with Flock
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