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                    [Title] => ‘RP politics still based on patronage’
                    [Summary] => 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 Philippines. 


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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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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