Cynthia Villar files COC for Las Piñas rep

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Cynthia Villar yesterday filed her certificate of candidacy (COC) as representative of the lone district of Las Piñas – a post currently held by her daughter Camille.

Camille is vying for a senatorial seat in the 2025 midterm elections, in a bid to join her elder brother, Sen. Mark Villar, in the upper chamber.

Instead of running for mayor, the Villar matriarch said she wants to be a congresswoman again to continue her advocacies in agriculture and the environment.

“I pity the farmers If I will leave them,” she said.

Villar served as representative of Las Piñas for three terms, from 2001 to 2010.

She won as senator in 2013 and was reelected in 2019.

“We are not a dynasty. We are a family. But it has been done by my father since 1963. He passed on to us our beloved Las Piñas,” Villar said. “We just inherited his love for the people of Las Piñas.”

In Taguig, Mayor Lani Cayetano yesterday filed her candidacy for reelection at the Comelec office in the city.

During a program held before the filing of COC, Cayetano presented her candidates under TLC (Team Lani Cayetano).

She endorsed the candidacy of reelectionist Taguig-Pateros 1st District Rep. Ricardo Cruz Jr., who is running against Lino Cayetano, her brother-in-law and former mayor of Taguig.

Cayetano also presented reelectionist Vice Mayor Arvin Alit and Fort Bonifacio barangay captain Jorge Daniel Bocobo, who will be running as representative of the Taguig-Pateros 2nd District.

Asked for comment on why Lino did not join her ticket, Cayetano said it was “his decision and his alone.”

Based on a Comelec resolution, Taguig voters will choose 12 councilors per district instead of the current eight.

The increase was due to the inclusion of the residents of the 10 embo (enlisted men’s barrio) barangays in Taguig instead of Makati.

From being a lawmaker, Marikina 1st District Rep. Marjorie Ann Teodoro is running for mayor in 2025.

Teodoro filed her COC at the Comelec office in the city yesterday.

She is seeking to switch post with her husband, Mayor Marcelino Teodoro, who is running for congressman of Marikina’s first district against Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III.

Marcelino is now on