Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto– The Pasig Mayor said on an outtake video from the inaugural episode of “Quarantined with Howie Severino”, that he would discourage his relatives from running for the next election on Pasig City to give way to other leaders.

Sotto first entered politics when he ran for a seat on the Pasig City Council in 2016 wherein he won the election as an independent, and served a term in the city council. He also breaks the 27-year dynasty of the Eusebios in the 2019 elections. 

He is a first-time mayor of Pasig who had shared hoped that the good public servants of Pasig who’ve left the government because of the political dynasty that would come back and serve again.

“Hindi lang dahil hindi magandang tingnan but ang puso ko para sa Pasig, puso namin ng team namin dito, magkaroon ng iba pang leaders,” the young leader said.

“Hindi lang naman isang tao ang magaling eh. Hindi lang isang pamilya ang magaling. Let’s find those young leaders. Let’s find those next generation leaders who will be better than me, who will be better than me, than the leaders that we already had here in Pasig,” he added.

Sotto said that he has no intention of keeping the power all to himself for years to come.

The true mark of a good leader is the ability to pass the leadership onto someone else, Vico added.

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“Succession is a defining [quality of] a good leader, so kung magaling kang leader, mapapasa mo sa susunod na leader. Ibig sabihin may continuity na hindi ‘yong anak mo lang o ano — ibig sabihin may mga bagong leader rin and that’s my vision for Pasig…kung sino yung pinakamagling, pinakamahusay at pinakatapat, yun yung manalo dito sa Pasig,” Vico said.

“Kung magiging successful leader ako, ibig sabihin the more successful I am, the shorter I will stay here. ‘Yon ang thinking ko,” he added.

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