Human rights lawyer Kaka Bag-ao makes a Congressional comeback in Dinagat

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General Luna, Surigao del Norte—For the fourth time, human rights lawyer and former Dinagat governor Arlene "Kaka” Bag-ao has defeated a scion of the Ecleo dynasty, winning the lone congressional seat of Dinagat Islands in the 2025 midterm elections.

While Ecleo won in four of the seven towns in the island province, Bag-ao got a boost in her overall tally as she gained a large margin of votes from the towns of Cagdianao, Tubajon, and her hometown of Loreto.

Bag-ao’s decades-long political rivalry with the powerful Ecleo family, long tied to the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association (PBMA), a group widely considered a cult founded by Ruben Ecleo Sr.began when she defeated Gwendolyn Ecleo, the youngest daughter of Ruben Sr., for the same congressional seat in 2013.

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Author / Journalist: Erwin M. Mascariñas

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