Caloocan gets new mayor

The Caloocan board of canvassers proclaimed Oscar Malapitan as the new city mayor Tuesday night, as he dominated a field of four candidates that included the son of the incumbent, Enrico Echiverri.

“The people have already decided and we won with a commanding lead,” Malapitan, who ran under the United Nationalist Alliance, told reporters after the proclamation at City Hall’s Bulwagang Katipunan.

The outgoing 1st District representative was declared winner in the mayoralty race with 98 percent of the votes canvassed. He got 246,286 votes to erect a commanding lead over closest rival, Ricojudge Janvier Echiverri, who got 170,025 votes.

Macario Asistio got 9,562 votes and Dionisio Giuliarte got 1,656 votes.

Malapitan scored an upset against the Echiverris who have ruled Caloocan for the past nine years.

Also on Tuesday, the city board of canvassers proclaimed Vice Mayor Edgar Erice of the Liberal Party as the city’s new congressional representative for the 2nd District.

Erice got 60,421 votes while closest rival Mary Mitzi Cajayon got 52,498 votes. In the same race, Luis Asistio got 28,110 votes, Carlos Cabochan got 3,516 votes, and Adoracion Garcia got 491 votes.