Former MMDA General Manager Jojo Garcia filed his certificate of candidacy (COC)聽for representative of the third district of Rizal. /From Jojo Garcia
MANILA, Philippines 鈥� Former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) General Manager Jojo Garcia on Tuesday filed his certificate of candidacy (COC)聽 for representative of the third district of Rizal.
Garcia personally filed his COC at the Commission on Elections鈥� Rizal Provincial Office at Hilltop, Taytay, Rizal at around 10 a.m.
Garcia is running under the Nationalist People鈥檚 Coalition party, as iniucated in his COC.
He announced his resignation as MMDA General Manager on Friday to run as the first ever representative of the third district of Rizal.
President Rodrigo Duterte recently signed into law a bill which divided the second legislative district of Rizal province into three new districts.