RUBBING ELBOWS. Borbon Vice Mayor Roy Melgo (left) with Mandaluyong City Vice Mayor Menchie Abalos, wife of DILG Sec. Benhur Abalos.
By Junex Doronio
BORBON, Cebu — Tagging him as the “Pride of Borbon,” residents in this municipality have hailed the appointment of Vice Mayor Roy D. Melgo as a political adviser for the Visayas of the Vice Mayors League of the Philippines (VLMP) following the election of Cebu City Vice Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia as the new National Executive Vice President.
Melgo is the concurrent vice chairman of the Vice Mayors League of the Philippines (VMLP) in Region 7 and treasurer of the VMLP – Cebu Chapter.
Garcia ran unopposed and won handily on Tuesday, February 21, during the 27th VLMP National Convention, hosted by the VLMP-NCR and held in one of the hotels in Metro Manila.
“The VMs League has several capacity building and skills training programs geared at improving the VMs of the country,” Garcia noted.
For his part, Melgo said he will exert his “very best effort” to help Garcia as the new National Executive Vice President of VLMP.
Maharlika TV gathered that Vice Mayor Dean Anthony Domalanta of San Mariana, Isabela was elected National Executive President of the VMLP for 2023-2025.
Also elected were Malabon Vice Mayor Ninong Dela Cruz, VLMP National Chairman; and Lugus, Sulu Vice Mayor Almedzar Hajiri, National Secretary General.
The VMLP is an organization that consists of city and municipal vice mayors in the country. It has over 1,600 member LGUs.
Former Senate President Tito Sotto, who founded the VMLP in 1988 when he was still the Quezon City Vice Mayor, graced the formal opening of the convention last Feb. 21.
