La Carlota Complete List of Winning Barangay Candidates and Their Proclamation

The small city of La Carlota in Negros Occidental conducted the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections peacefully Monday, May 14, 2018. There are 14 Barangay in the said city.

These winning 14 Punong Barangay and their respective 7 Kagawad would be formally proclaimed Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 4:00 p.m. at the La Carlota City Gym in a simple ceremony.

The La Carlota Comelec through its Election Officer IV, Atty. Revo E. Sorbito has officially issued the following list of these Winning Barangay candidates:

SK Abolition Holds Water

In 1975, the first youth council, Kabataang Barangay (KB) was created by virtue of Presidential Decreee (PD) 684 by former late President Ferdinand Marcos and later in 1986, it was changed to Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) as the governing body of Katipunan ng Kabataan (KK) to represent the youths and deliver youth-focused services in the barangay.

In 1992, the first SK elections were held and the recent was in October 25, 2010.

Two years ago I wrote about SK Abolition: To Be or Not To Be with the proposal of Senator Edgardo Angara for the abolition of Sangguniang Kabataan. Instead, he said that there should be an election within the barangay, municipal or provincial council to represent the youth.

In like manner, Deputy Speaker Pablo Magtanggol Gunigundo filed bills to do away with SK polls for SK members are minors, legal age issue, untrusted to handle public funds.

SK Abolition: 'To Be or Not To Be?'

After the synchronized SK and Barangay elections last year 2010, Senator Edgardo Angara proposed a move to abolish the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK). He suggested "the government should create an elected position within the barangay, municipal, or provincial council for youth representatives instead of the SK."

Recently, Deputy Speaker Pablo Garcia Valenzuela City Representative Magtanggol Gunigundo filed bills to abolish SK for the following reasons:

1. SK members are minors (15 years old to 18 years old).
2. They cannot perform legal matters considering their age.
3. They cannot be entrusted with power and public funds for they are just beginning to learn what responsibility and accountability are all about.

Others concerned citizens also favor for the SK abolition like Miguel who points out that "SK are no capability to serve the young youth but instead it is modelling a political dynasty in society."