[SPECIAL REPORT] Mindanao 2022 to 2025: fat and obese dynasties rule (3)

Last of three parts  DAVAO CITY (MindaNews /13 July) –  At the inauguration of the Siargao Island Sports and Tourism Complex in Dapa, Surigao del Norte on November 6, 2021, then Pres…

DAVAO CITY – At the inauguration of the Siargao Island Sports and Tourism Complex in Dapa, Surigao del Norte on November 6, 2021, then President Rodrigo Duterte paused after reading the name of the third official with the same surname.

Francico’s brother Ernesto and his son Ernesto Jr. lost their bid for vice mayor and mayor of Surigao City. In Maguindanao, Governor Bai Mariam Sangki Mangudadatu won a second term against Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu, former governor and representative of the second district and cousin of her husband, Suharto, who was governor of neighboring Sultan Kudarat.

The undivided Maguindanao has a population of 1.34 million as of May 2020 census, spread across 7,547.2 square kilometers. It has a voting population of 818,790 as of December 2021, is the vote-richest among the five provinces in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and is the sixth vote-richest among Mindanao’s 27 provinces. Its poverty incidence as of first semester of 2021 is 37.1% according to the Philippine Statistics Authority.

The increase can be attributed to several factors. The creation of additional provinces, cities and districts is just one. The Internal Revenue Allotment is another and local government units will have higher IRA with the implementation of the Mandanas ruling which gives LGUs a just share on all national taxes collected, not only from the Bureau of Internal Revenue, effective 2022.

In well-entrenched dynasties, family members run for various posts in the same election – provincial, congressional district, city or municipal – even in party-list groups as in the case of the Bautistas of Davao Occidental and Tans of Sulu. Across Mindanao’s 422 municipalities, dynasties have proliferated, too.

Duterte claimed it was the people’s clamor for his family to run for public office to continue his programs. At the end of his talk during his campaign sorties, Lopez would quiz his listeners.

Ampatuan Sr. started this trend in Maguindanao back in the 2007 elections or 15 years ago, and is now being followed elsewhere: negotiate with your potential rival so you will not be opposed in the next election. Bodies exhumed from the mass graves at the massacre site in Sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman in Ampatuan, Maguindanao in this photo taken on 25 November 2009. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO

Across Mindanao in the May 2022 polls, candidates for governor in four provinces , mayor in two cities and representatives in six legislative districts won even before election day. They ran unopposed. But Teehankee stressed that by the law of nature, “there will always be a rise and fall” of dynasties. A dynasty can be toppled by another dynasty; a dynasty can be toppled by a non-dynasty like Kaka Bag-ao of Dinagat who won the gubernatorial post in 2019 but lost in the 2022 polls.

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