Democracy
is working.
Former
Department of Health secretary Janette Garin made a comeback in government, she
has won over her opponent in the first district congressional race in the
recent mid-term elections.
She
won via landslide over his opponent with an overwhelming 121, 503 votes as
against General Gerardo Flores.
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| Former Department of Health Secretary Janette Garin was proclaimed by the Commission on Elections as winning candidate for Iloilo's first congressional district race (photo credit to PNA) |
Flores
made an issue of the Dengvaxia scam against Garin to threw her off, but despite
of it all Flores only got 27, 658 votes.
“The
result showed that the issue did not affect the result of the elections. It is
because the issue is not true and the people in the first district are
intelligent enough to decide for what is true or not,” Garin said
It
was under the administration of former President Benigno Aquino III, and Garin
as his DOH Secretary in 2016, launched a school-based mass vaccination of the
anti-dengue vaccination program using Dengvaxia.
Flores,
tried to derail Garin’s bid by conductng last November 2018 a “funeral caravan”
in the first district of Iloilo to seek justice for the children who died
because of being vaccinated by the anti-dengue Dengvaxia.
Garin
admitted that the issues did not impact
on the elections, but was of a big effect her campaign because of the different
court procedural appearances.
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