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Philippine election

Local elections were held in Makati on May 9, 2016, within the Philippine general election. The voters elected for the elective local posts in the city: the mayor, vice mayor, the two Congressmen, and the eight councilors, eight in each of the city's two legislative districts.

Background

Acting Mayor Kid Peña will run for the mayoral position against a "still to be determined" mayoralty bet from the United Nationalist Alliance.^[1] That "still to be determined" candidate turned out to be outgoing 2nd District Representative Mar-Len Abigail "Abby" Binay-Campos, who replaced her brother Junjun.

Binay was disqualified for running by the Ombudsman due to the overpriced Makati City Hall II Parking building anomaly.^[2]

Aside from Peña and Binay, theater and stage play director Jimboy Jumawan is reportedly running for Mayor under the banner of Partido Bagong Maharlika party.^[3]

In the vice mayoral