Angelito Sarmiento
Angelito Monsura Sarmiento was a Filipino politician. A member of Liberal Party/Partido Del Pilar, he served as the mayor of the City of [San Jose del Monte], Bulacan from 2004 and 2007 and from 2009 to 2010.
Political career
As legislator
Sarmiento served three terms as representative of the 4th District of Bulacan from 1992–2001. It was under that term that he authored , an act converting the Municipality of San Jose del Monte in the Province of Bulacan into a component city to be known as the City of San Jose del Monte. Three months before the end of his third and final term, he was appointed by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as Presidential Adviser on Agricultural Modernization and concurrently appointed as Chairman of the National Food Authority, a position he held until 2004.As city mayor
Sarmiento successfully vied for mayor of San Jose del Monte in 2004 but later lost his re-election bid to then Representative and former two-term Municipal Mayor and the first City Mayor Eduardo V. Roquero in 2007, amid allegations of cheating and bomb threats. In 2009, after a seemingly lengthy legal battle on the resolution of his election protest which affected even the residents of the city order, San Pedro was reverted to his old position of vice mayor.He ran for a full term as city mayor on 2010 but lost to Reynaldo San Pedro.