Dagupan lady councilor elected 4L president
By Jun Velasco

DAGUPAN CITY — A popular lady councilor here has rallied fellow lady local legislators all over the country to protect the rights of women and children.

She aired the call after her election as president of the 4L Philippines, a national organization of women vice governors, board members, vice mayors, councilors, punong barangays, and SK presidents during the group’s national convention held recently at a hotel in Manila.

Councilor Farah Decano, a University of the Philippines-educated lawyer, defeated her lone opponent, a city councilor from the Cordillera, with a landslide margin.

In her victory speech, Decano, a daughter of University of Pangasinan Law Dean Hermogenes Decano and Regional Trial Court Judge Alicia Decano, exhorted the country’s lady solons to work for "major changes" in the Lady Local Legislators League or 4L Philippines "to effectively empower its members for the ultimate benefit of the country."

She said "4L Philippines is strategically positioned to advance women’s and children’s causes," adding that "the officers and I shall see to it that the vast potential of woman power will not be wasted."

Her party, 3G which stands for "Girl Power for Genuine representation through collective, competent and transparent governance," won overwhelmingly on all the three islands of Luzon, Visays and Mindanao, it was learned.