Doctor dies but topples Fua dynasty in Siquijor

PHYSICIAN and businessman Jose Jay Samson Pernes, the Liberal Party’s candidate for the lone congressional district of Siquijor in Central Visayas died on Sunday, the eve of the elections. He was 49.

However, he won over his rival, incumbent Gov. Orlando Fua Jr., and his wife, Marie Anne Serrano-Pernes, who was nominated as substitute candidate by the LP, is awaiting to be proclaimed as of press time.