2025 Pasig local elections


Local elections were held in Pasig on Monday, May 12, 2025, as part of the 2025 Philippine general election. The electorate elected a mayor, a vice mayor, twelve members of the Pasig City Council, and one representative to the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The officials elected in the election assumed their respective offices on June 30, 2025, for a three-year-long term.
The election was primarily contested around the two rival tickets Giting ng Pasig headed by the reelectionist Mayor Vico Sotto, and Team Kaya This, headed by businesswoman Sarah Discaya. Sotto ran for this third and final term as Mayor of Pasig, having been in office since 2019, and won in a landslide victory.

Background

Several graft cases had been filed against incumbent mayor Vico Sotto, the first ones he had faced in his political career, which he believed were politically motivated. The cases stemmed from allegedly distributing shirts instead of cash allowances to city hall employees, and for allegedly giving an illegal tax discount to telco company Converge ICT. In addition, a petition for a temporary restraining order had also been filed against the implementation of Mayor Sotto's flagship project, the ₱9.6-billion reconstruction of the Pasig City Hall Complex.

Candidates

Note: Candidates in italics indicate incumbents seeking reelection.

Other candidates

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Campaign

Discaya had spent more than 1 billion by the start of the campaign period on March 28, 2025.
Discaya campaigned on a platform centered on increased infrastructure spending, with the goal of transforming Pasig into a "smart city." She outlined plans for several major projects aimed at improving the quality of life for residents. Discaya also said she was compelled to run for mayor in response to what she described as Mayor Sotto's "baseless" accusations against her construction company. Additionally, she criticized Sotto for prioritizing "good governance" over essential services such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure development.
Mayor Sotto also criticized a concert held by the St. Gerrard Construction Charity Foundation, led by Curlee Discaya and his wife Sarah, for not securing permits from the city hall, which were countered by the foundation's insistence that it was held within the private Arcovia City estate. The aforementioned couple's St. Gerrard Construction and Development Corporation have previously had their projects in Barangay Bambang suspended by Mayor Sotto for lack of building permits and violating the terms of one of their approved permits. In 2020, the firm was also blacklisted from all government projects by the Department of Public Works and Highways for a period of one year for missing project deadlines.
Meanwhile, the Discayas, former city councilor Mario Concepcion Jr., and former Bambang barangay captain Reynaldo Samson Jr. joined the ruling Partido Federal ng Pilipinas in anticipation of a 2025 run. The party has regarded Sarah Discaya, through her charity work in the city, as a "winnable mayoral candidate".

Mayoral election

Incumbent mayor Vico Sotto was on his second consecutive term, having won his reelection bid in 2022, and was eligible to run for a third and final consecutive term. He won his final term as Mayor of the city in this election.

Candidates

Controversies

On April 14, 2025, Mayor Sotto publicly claimed that his challenger, Sarah Discaya, used a British passport earlier that year—an allegation that, he argued, could raise questions about her eligibility to run for public office under Republic Act (RA) No. 9225. Sotto said he received reports about Discaya's January flight details but opted not to pursue a disqualification case, asserting his desire to distance his campaign from traditional political tactics. In response, Discaya's legal counsel maintained that she is a dual citizen by birth—born in London to Filipino parents—and therefore not subject to RA 9225's renunciation requirement, citing a 2022 Supreme Court ruling.
In the months after the election, two of Discaya's construction firms, Alpha & Omega Gen. Contracting and Development Corp. and St. Timothy Construction Corp., were enumerated second and third among the firms that received the most number of government flood control projects in the country.

Vice mayoral election

Incumbent vice mayor Robert Jaworski Jr. was on his first term, having won his seat in the 2022 Pasig local elections, and was eligible to run for his second consecutive term. He won the vice-mayoralty anew.

Candidates

City Council election

The Pasig City Council has 14 members, 12 of which are elected via plurality block voting for three-year terms. It is divided into two city council districts, with six councilors each.

First district

The first city council district is composed of the western and southern barangays of the city, namely Bagong Ilog, Bagong Katipunan, Bambang, Buting, Caniogan, Kalawaan, Kapasigan, Kapitolyo, Malinao, Oranbo, Palatiw, Pineda, Sagad, San Antonio, San Joaquin, San Jose, San Nicolas, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Santo Tomas, Sumilang, and Ugong.
The administration coalition won a majority of the district's seats in 2022, winning five of the six contested seats.
Term-limited councilors
  • Reggie Balderama

Second District

The second city council district is composed of the northern and eastern barangays of the city, namely Dela Paz, Manggahan, Maybunga, Pinagbuhatan, Rosario, San Miguel, Santa Lucia, and Santolan.
The administration coalition won a majority of the district's seats in 2022, winning five of the six contested seats.
Term-limited councilors
  • Corie Raymundo

House of Representatives election

The city elects one representative to the House of Representatives. The incumbent is Roman Romulo, who is on his second consecutive term. He is eligible to run for a third and final consecutive term.
Romulo won his third and final consecutive term.

Candidates

  • Roman Romulo, incumbent representative
  • Ian Sia, former 1st district councilor, 2022 vice mayoral candidate.

Disqualification of Christian Sia

On April 2, 2025, Pasig representative candidate Christian Sia drew controversy during a campaign rally in Barangay Pinagbuhatan after making sexually suggestive remarks directed at single mothers. During his speech, he joked that women who were still menstruating and experiencing loneliness could sleep with him once a year. He later clarified that he was married and described the remarks as just a joke.
Videos and clips of his speech soon went viral on social media drawing widespread condemnation from various groups and political figures. Organizations such as the women's rights group Gabriela, the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and the Philippine Commission on Women, among others, issued statements denouncing his remarks. On April 5, 2025, Sia apologized in a press conference for his remarks about single mothers, acknowledged that his comments were a poor choice and inappropriate in the context of a political campaign, but blamed the uploader of the video. The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) issued a show-cause order, citing possible violations of anti-discrimination rules. The Solo Parents Party-list filed a complaint, and Sia was suspended from campaign activities for three days by his party. In response to his comments, the Solo Parents Partylist has filed a formal complaint against Sia with the COMELEC.
On April 8, 2025, while campaigning in Barangay Sagad, Sia drew controversy after making remarks about the weight gain of a former female staff member who had since changed employers. The COMELEC issued a second show-cause order on the same day, directing Sia to explain why he should not face charges for an election offense or disqualification, citing potential violations of anti-discrimination and fair campaigning guidelines.
On May 7, 2025, just five days before election day, the COMELEC Second Division disqualified Sia as a candidate in the local elections. Despite his disqualification, he garnered 16,829 votes, but behind winning candidate Roman Romulo, who got 348,939 votes.