Ex-SK chair wins race in Lanao del Sur 7th District
COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Rayyan Mindalano, former Sangguniang Kabataan chairman of Madamba town, Lanao del Sur, has officially won the race for Lanao del Sur’s 7th District in the Bangsamoro parliamentary elections.
He received 38,670 or 63.63% of his district’s votes, according to Lanao del Sur’s total certificates of canvass on the Commission on Elections’ website. He ran under the Serbisyong Inklusibo-Alyansang Progresibo Party.
His closest competitor, former Bacolod-Kalawi mayor Nora Dipatuan, only got 21,996 or 36.19% of the votes, which is around 16,000 less than Mindalano’s votes.
Dipatuan ran under the banner of the United Bangsamoro Justice Party, which is led by Ahod “Al Haj Murad” Ebrahim, chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Dipatuan’s husband, Sultan Diarangan Dipatuan, was also a former mayor of Bacolod-Kalawi. Their family still holds power in the municipality of Bacolod-Kalawi, with the Dipatuans currently sitting as the mayor and vice mayor there. – Rappler.com
