Ex-PB set to challenge incumbent Solsona mayor in 2025 polls

Solsona Mayor Joseph E. de Lara (left) and former punong barangay and businessman Charles Curameng (right) gear for a possible mayoralty showdown in Solsona for the 2025 midterm elections. (Doms dela Cruz)

By Dominic B. dela Cruz

Staff Reporter

Solsona, Ilocos Norte—Former punong barangay and businessman Charles Curameng is set to throw his hat into the mayoralty race against incumbent Solsona Mayor Joseph E. de Lara in the upcoming 2025 national and local midterm elections.

Curameng formally announced his candidacy for mayor in a bid to continue his public service and helping his constituents not only in Brgy. Laureta but the whole town of Solsona

With just one term as barangay head, Curameng admitted that he needs more knowledge in the field of public governance and he added that he is willing to learn.

He stressed that he decided to run primarily to help the people who are in need and see some priority projects that need an immediate attention like the construction and improvement of flood control projects and dikes.

Curameng believed that the sympathy and the voice of the people of Solsona had finally spoken and that they now support him.

“Madlawen no ana kayo kadagiti tattaon. [Directed to the mayor and vice mayor Jonathan de Lara]. Awan simpatya kadakayon. Kasi daytoy ar-aramiden yo a pinagsina-sina iti agkakabagyan kada agkakarruba panggep laeng iti puitika’’, Curameng emphasized.

“Appo a kakailiak iti Solsona, adda akun a tumakderen para kadakayo. Saan kayo a mabutbuteng. Isubli tayo tay langen-langen tayo iti tmunggal maysa,” he added.

Curameng likewise thanked his friends and relatives here and abroad for the continued support he is receiving.

“Awan sumgar a dotdot ko. Uray agtitipon da pay amin,” De Lara said in reaction to Curameng’s declaration.

De Lara questioned the earlier distribution of Curameng of school supplies to the different Day Care Centers here without permission from the office of the mayor as mandated by a Municipal Ordinance.

He added that whatever he do it does not mean it has any political undertones.

As a matter of fact, De Lara said that he won by more than 3,000 votes against his previous mayoralty opponent Bobby Sacro during the last elections.

“Ti la makunak, no dakesak kuma a nagturay, awan kuma naar-aramidakun ken saan dak kuma pagsubli-sublienen dagiti taon. Awan pinilpilit ko,” de Lara noted.

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