{"id":13783,"date":"2025-05-14T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=13783"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:35:19","slug":"kerwin-espinosa-wins-as-mayor-of-albuera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/kerwin-espinosa-wins-as-mayor-of-albuera\/","title":{"rendered":"KERWIN ESPINOSA WINS AS MAYOR OF ALBUERA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALLEGED drug lord&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Kerwin Espinosa on Tuesday was proclaimed by the Board of Canvassers as mayor of Albuera, Leyte.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Based on 71.79% of election returns processed,<\/strong><strong> Espinosa secured a total of <\/strong><strong>10,939 votes.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Espinosa, son of slain Albuera mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr., defeated his rivals Vince Rama, who got 7,081 votes, and incumbent Mayor Sixto dela Victoria, who received 2,761 votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kerwin&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>sister, RR Espinosa, was proclaimed vice mayor of Albuera.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>I<strong>n a television interview, Kerwin said he will prioritize the peace and order and the problem on illegal drugs in Albuera.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2016, detained former President Rodrigo Duterte accused Kerwin and his father of involvement in the illegal drug trade in Eastern Visayas.<\/strong> <strong>This after a police raid near the Albuera home yielded P11 million worth of shabu.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALLEGED drug lord&nbsp;Kerwin Espinosa on Tuesday was proclaimed by the Board of Canvassers as mayor of Albuera, Leyte. Based on 71.79% of election returns processed,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13785,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783\/revisions\/13785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}