2025 Taguig mayoral elections
May 12, 2025 (2025-05-12)
Mayor before election

Lani Cayetano
Nacionalista

 Elected Mayor

TBD

Local elections in Taguig will take place on May 12, 2025 within the Philippine general election. The voters will vote for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, district representatives, and councilors, eight in each of the city's legislative districts. This will be the first general (nationwide and local) elections in the Embo barangays as part of Taguig.

Background

The local race for Taguig has been sensationalized by the media outlets following the recent Supreme Court decision that transfers the jurisdiction of ten Embo barangays from Makati to Taguig. Many political pundits, academicians, and journalists have been tackling the major role and implications that the Embo barangays could bring in the 2025 elections in Taguig.[1]

In addition, some issues of the repportionment of the districts of Makati and Taguig are still pending to be resolved following the Supreme Court ruling with Taguig possibly gaining additional one congressional seat and eight city council seats to accommodate the new Taguig residents from the Embo barangays that could be up for grabs and filled in 2025.[2]

Last August 2023, the COMELEC has issued a memorandum transferring the jurisdiction of Embo barangays from COMELEC Makati to COMELEC Taguig.[3] For the first time, the residents of the Embo barangays have voted in Taguig last 2023 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections.[4]

Candidates

The 2025 Taguig local elections is stirred with a lot of rumors and discussions from the residents of Taguig, most especially in the Embo barangays which gained momentum in national media outlets about the possible clash or dynastic invasion of the Binay family to the Cayetano family by fielding or endorsing a Binay-backed candidate or by running themselves in Taguig.[5]

Potential

References

  1. ↑ https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-political-terrain-taguig-shift-cayetano-binay/
  2. ↑ https://halalan.up.edu.ph/what-taguig-stands-to-gain-and-potentially-lose/
  3. ↑ https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/08/21/2290319/comelec-10-embo-barangays-now-part-taguig-bske
  4. ↑ https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1852665/embo-residents-find-no-difference-in-voting-under-taguig-citys-control
  5. ↑ https://opinion.inquirer.net/165590/retribution-by-election
  6. ↑ Lelis, Brix (January 10, 2024). "Binay eyes run for Taguig mayor". The Manila Times. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
  7. ↑ https://politiko.com.ph/2024/01/06/mayayanig-taguig-abby-binay-meets-with-cayetano-nemesis-freddie-tinga/snitch-network/
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