Davide wants Magpale to reconsider political retirement
More than a week after Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale said she is ready to retire in 2016, Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III said he isn’t ready to let her go just yet.
“I really hope she would run again,” he told reporters during a press conference at the Capitol yesterday.
Magpale made her remarks in reaction to Toledo City Mayor John Henry “Sonny” Osmeña’s accusations that her frequent medical missions in remote barangays in the province were a form of “early campaigning.”
“She has been very supportive kanako. Especially since she has been in public service longer than I am,” Davide said.
Magpale served as Provincial Board (PB) member for three consecutive terms from 1992 to 2001 before pursuing a career outside politics. She then returned to the PB in 2004.
Garnering the most number of votes in the 2010 elections, Magpale assumed as vice governor on April 2011, following the untimely death of former vice governor Gregorio Sanchez Jr.
She took her oath as acting governor a year later after the suspension of former governor and now Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia of Cebu’s 3rd district.
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