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As the dust settles from May’s national elections, the names of those who won the most powerful posts in La Union still have a familiar ring: Victor Ortega, governor; his brother Manuel, congressman; Victor’s wife Mary Jane, mayor of provincial capital San Fernando. 


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‘RP politics still based on patronage’

July 14, 2004 - 12:00am

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union — From the time she cast her first ballot in the 1960s, retired teacher Editha Rimando can only remember one family being in control of her tobacco-growing province in the northern...

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