Former Saipan senator Ray N. Yumul is running again for senator, while nine more, including incumbent representatives, have filed their candidacies for the House of Representatives. <\/p>\n
The 10 are all running as independent candidates.<\/p>\n
Ray Yumul and his brother, Rep. Ralph N. Yumul (Ind-Saipan), were among the seven persons who filed their candidacies before the Commonwealth Election Commission in Susupe yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Ralph Yumul is seeking re-election for a House precinct 3 seat.<\/p>\n
The five others who filed their candidacies yesterday were Rep. Jonathan Blas Attao (Ind-Saipan) for precinct 3, Rep. Lorenzo I. Deleon Guerrero (Ind-Saipan) for precinct 5, Rep. Roman C. Benavente (Ind-Saipan) for precinct 1, Rep. Vinnie F. Sablan (Ind-Saipan) for precinct 4, and Joseph Arriola Flores for precinct 1. Except for Flores, all are incumbent representatives.<\/p>\n
Last week, incumbent Reps. Ramon A. Tebuteb (Ind-Saipan) and Anthony T. Benavente (Ind-Saipan) also filed for candidacies together with Vicente C. Camacho. The three are independents. <\/p>\n
Tebuteb and Benavente are seeking re-election for precinct 3. Camacho is also running for precinct 3.<\/p>\n
Yesterday\u2019s filings brought to a total of 14 persons who filed their candidacies for the Nov. 8 general elections since the Commonwealth Election Commission started accepting submission of nominating petitions and candidacy last July 11.<\/p>\n
Anthony Indalecio Duenas, Herman Manglona Atalig, and Andrew Lujan Orsini recently filed their candidacies. <\/p>\n
Duenas is running as an independent for a House of Representatives precinct 1 seat.<\/p>\n
Atalig filed his candidacy for Board of Education Rota position, while Commonwealth Utilities Corp. human resources manager Orsini filed his candidacy for BOE Saipan position.<\/p>\n
Former lawmaker Antonio Muna Camacho was the first to file his candidacy. He is running as an independent for a House of Representatives precinct 5 seat.<\/p>\n
Camacho is a former representative.<\/p>\n
Election commission acting executive director Julita Villagomez reminded the public that the deadline to file nominations and candidacy is Aug. 10.<\/p>\n
She said CEC commissioners have to meet to certify the candidates.<\/p>\n
There are 35 seats up for grabs in the coming Nov. 8 general elections. <\/p>\n
Villagomez said it used to be called mid-term elections, but the election commission now calls it general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Saipan senator Ray N. Yumul is running again for senator, while nine more, including…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12704,242,12763,65],"class_list":["post-233532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-anthony-indalecio-duenas","tag-commonwealth-election-commission","tag-herman-manglona-atalig","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}