TACLOBAN CITY – A provincial legislator is hoping
that a recent shooting incident involving bodyguards of local
politicians in a town here in the province of Leyte would not become a
prelude to a bloody election this May 2013.
Majority Floor Leader and Leyte fifth district Board Member Carlo
Loreto said that the incident happened between a bodyguard of the
incumbent municipal mayor of Merida, Leyte, Mayor Marthon Solaña who was
shot to death by a gunman identified as a supporter of a Municipal
Councilor Tony Martinez who is to run for mayoral seat in the town of
Merida.
Martinez is said to be a cousin of Leyte 4rd District Representative Lucy Torres-Gomez.
An incumbent municipal councilor was also hit by a bullet, but he is currently under operation said Board Member Loreto.
“We want that the Police Provincial Office would investigate this
incident because we don’t want this to become an introduction to
violence that might transpire in next year’s election,” Loreto said.
“This should be given solution now, because it may trigger into
something this coming election and we want to stop that as of this
time,,, violence has no place in election in Leyte,” Loreto stressed.
To prevent further similar incident to happened, the member of the
Sangguniang Panlalawigan through the resolution filed by Loreto seek the
PNP Provincial Office of Leyte to conduct thorough investigation, to
give justice to the victims and put the perpetrator behind bars.
“If another incident like this happened again in the future,
political rivals might sought revenge each time their allies is killed
by other camp,” Loreto explains.
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