Treñas leads Gonzalez Jr. in congressional race—survey
Nacionalista Party (NP) spokesperson ex-congressman Gilbert Remulla yesterday announced that Mayor Jerry Treñas is much way ahead of his political opponent incumbent Representative Raul Gonzalez Jr. in the congressional race as shown in a survey conducted recently.
Remulla made the announcement in yesterday’s oath taking ceremony of new NP members. “The mayor is very humble in not announcing the recent result of the survey,” Remulla said.
It was not immediately known whether it was the same survey released last month which also favored Treñas against Gonzalez Jr.
Remulla’s announcement made Treñas’ supporters applause. Remulla popped in the result of the local survey after Treñas disclosed the survey result in Iloilo City which considerably placed NP’s presidential bet Senator Manny Villar and Liberal Party standard bearer Senator Noynoy Aquino on the same spot.
In reading the survey result, Treñas said Aquino has a lead of only three percent against Villar. Aquino got the voters’ preference of 34 percent and Villar has 31 percent. The survey was commissioned by Treñas himself.
The margin of error is five percent. Considering that the margin of error is only 5 percent, they are most likely in the same ranking, said Treñas.
However, the name of the survey firm and copies of the said survey were not provided to the media who covered yesterday’s oath taking ceremony at Sarabia Manor Hotel and Convention Center.
Villar was accompanied by Ilocos Sur Representative Bongbong Marcos and Martin Querubin, son of detained Col. Ariel Querubin. The younger Querubin represented his father yesterday. Colonel Querubin, a Medal of Valor awardee is facing charges for mutiny in a military court.
Marcos and Querubin will run under the NP ticket. The negotiation between the supposed coalition of NP and Bayan Muna was hindered with the entry of Marcos in the party. Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo wants the NP to make a stand on issues regarding the Marcos ill-gotten wealth and human rights violations.
The NP’s standard bearer is confident the issue will soon be resolved.
