Francisco Jerome K. Aldan is the Republican Party\u2019s candidate for Northern Islands mayor, while the party also named last night Francisco Aguon as the second candidate for a House seat representing Precinct 5. <\/p>\n
Aldan is program manager for the Northern Islands Mayor\u2019s Office and has been serving as acting mayor because of the current mayor\u2019s health condition. He has been a strong advocate for keeping the Northern Islands pristine for residents and visitors. Aguon, meanwhile, is currently a labor law enforcement officer at the Department of Labor. Aguon joins incumbent Rep. Antonio Agulto as Precinct 5 House candidates.<\/p>\n
Ivan Blanco, chairman of the GOP Central Committee\u2019s public relations team, announced this last night, shortly after the Republican Party board endorsed the two candidates.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party will be filing their petitions and candidacies today at the Commonwealth Election Commission, led by the gubernatorial tandem of Edward \u201cTofila\u201d M. Deleon Guerrero and Danny Quitugua.<\/p>\n
This brings to three the gubernatorial teams that have so far formally filed their candidacy, along with Gov. Eloy S. Inos and Senate President Ralph Torres (R-Saipan) of the Republican Party, and former governor Juan N. Babauta and former senator Juan S. Torres as Independents. <\/p>\n
The Independent gubernatorial team of former speaker Heinz S. Hofschneider and Senate Floor Leader Ray Yumul (Ind-Saipan) has yet to file theirs. <\/p>\n
Babauta-Torres platform<\/strong><\/p>\n Moreover, the Babauta-Torres team laid out yesterday their 2014 platform, about a week after filing their candidacy. It covers economy, CNMI-specific legalized work status, tax issues, education, health care and federal relations, among other things.<\/p>\n The Babauta-Torres team is seeking legal status for five years\u2014or a five-year work permit\u2014for all current nonresident workers in the CNMI, to continue to work in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n \u201cThis legal status is specific to the CNMI and is for a maximum of 14,000 nonresident workers, unless and until a lower number is set by the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security by his authority under 48 U.S.C. 1806 in the U.S. Code,\u201d Babauta-Torres said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Francisco Jerome K. Aldan is the Republican Party\u2019s candidate for Northern Islands mayor, while the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,288,141,65],"class_list":["post-43367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-democratic-party","tag-gop","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43367","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}