{"id":372343,"date":"2022-07-14T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=372343"},"modified":"2022-07-14T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:00:20","slug":"republican-party-has-31-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/republican-party-has-31-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Party has 31 candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Francisco Q. Cruz and Jude U. Hofschneider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider and Sen. Francisco Q. Cruz are seeking re-election as senators for Tinian under the NMI Republican Party, which is fielding a total of 31 candidates, including several new faces, for this Nov. 8 general elections.<\/p>\n

A copy of the NMI Republican Party\u2019s list of candidates obtained by Saipan Tribune yesterday shows that the party, led by Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, who is seeking re-election with Sen. Vinnie F. Sablan as his running mate, has a full-slate of candidates for the Senate and mayors for Saipan, Rota, Tinian, and the Northern Islands.<\/p>\n

The GOP also has a full-slate of candidates for the House of Representatives, except for Precinct 1, where the party has five bets for six positions.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party has yet to disclose whether it has a candidate to challenge the candidacy of Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP), who is seeking his eight term as CNMI delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

For the Senate Saipan seats, Rep. Angel A. Demapan and former representative Janet U. Maratita are running.<\/p>\n

For the Tinian Senate seats, Hofschneider and Cruz are seeking re-election.
\nFor the Rota Senate seats, Rota Mayor Efraim M. Atalig and special assistant for Department of Homeland Security Dennis C. Mendiola are the GOP\u2019s bets.<\/p>\n

For House Precinct 1, the Republican Party has only one incumbent representative who is seeking re-election\u2014Rep. Roy A. Ada. The four other candidates are Frankie Fernando Angel, Arlene Marie M. Reyes, Patrick Cepeda, and Lucinda R. Salepeo.<\/p>\n

For House Precinct 2, the candidates are Keith C. Ada and Eric B. Esteves.<\/p>\n

For House Precinct 3, Grace Sablan, Ana Demapan Castro, Quiad O. Ngirchongor, Alfred L. Saures, Carl Hocog, and Joaquin Sablan make up the full slate.<\/p>\n

For House Precinct 4, Cecilia R. Taitano and David Randy R. Sablan are running.<\/p>\n

For House Precinct 5, the GOP is fielding Lorenzo I. Deleon Guerrero and Thomas John DLC Manglona.<\/p>\n

For House Precinct 6 (Tinian), Rep. Patrick H. San Nicolas is seeking re-election.<\/p>\n

For House Precinct 7 (Rota), Ivan T. Mereb Jr. is running.<\/p>\n

For mayors, the party has Rep. Joseph Lee Pan T. Guerrero for Saipan, Tinian Mayor Edwin P. Aldan is seeking re-election, Commonwealth Economic Development Authority board chair Aubry M. Hocog is competing for Rota, and Valentino N. Taisacan Jr. is gunning for the Northern Islands.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Cabrera, interim chair of the NMI Democratic Party, said yesterday that once the CEC has formally endorsed all their candidates, they will make a formal announcement on their list of candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider and Sen. Francisco Q. Cruz are seeking re-election as senators…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":372344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[1319],"class_list":["post-372343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372343","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=372343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}