“The appeal of Vice Gov. Maria Jocelyn Valera-Bernos for President Marcos Jr. to mediate the legal tussle between the Office of the Executive Secretary
and the Department of Interior and Local Government…and the court decision to hold in abeyance the suspension orders against the two top provincial officials…could help ease the tense political situation in Abra”
She said her husband’s party, the National Unity Party, endorsed her to serve her husband’s unfinished term until the 2025 elections. Bernos had ordered a lockdown of the Dr. Petronilo Seares Memorial Hospital in Bangued due to a COVID-19 case in June 2020. Seares, the hospital’s administrator, said this deprived the public of essential healthcare services during the pandemic, a claim contradicted by Bernos.
Amid all this, Vice Gov. Valera-Bernos has already issued an urgent appeal to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to step in and mediate the ongoing political standoff.
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