LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The Sangguniang Panlalalawigan Monday confirmed the appointments of the provincial administrator and legal officer during its first session.
Vice Gov. Mark Ronald Lambino and the board confirmed the re-appointment by Gov. Ramon Guico III of Provincial Administrator Melicio Patague II and Legal Officer Baby Ruth Torre, a lawyer.
“I have given my best to support the mission and vision of the provincial government of Pangasinan under the leadership of Governor Ramon V. Guico III and Vice Governor Mark Ronald DG. Lambino,” said PA Patague after completing the three year service as right hand man of the governor last June 30.
He added: “We would like to be a team player, a positive contributor and we would like to participate in the continuation of the big-ticket projects initiated by the administration of Gov. Guico and Vice Gov. Mark Ronald Lambino.”
Patague is a former vice mayor of Binalonan where he also served as a Sangguniang Kabataan chairman and later president of said organization leading to him getting a seat at the municipal board. He also served as a councilor and later as vice mayor until his “graduation” in 2022 just as Gov. Guico won as governor.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Saint Louis University and finished his bachelor of law at the Baguio Colleges Foundation, now the University of the Cordilleras.
In confirming Torre, the provincial board said: “After careful examination, scrutiny, and review of the qualifications, records and experiences of the recommendee, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan finds the appointment meritorious and therefore interposes no objection to said appointment,..’
Torre, an SLU accountancy and law school graduate, was a Senior Partner at the Samson, Torre, Arenas, Montemayor & Associates Law Office in San Carlos City where she specialized in litigation law before she joined the Guico administration.
She is also a part-time law instructor at the Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) College of Law in 2011. Ruby F. Rayat/PIMRO
