Edgardo Labella's father, Eugene Labella, was a director of Visayan films and had served as regional director in Central Visayas of the Ministry of Public Information.
26 Facts About Edgardo Labella
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Edgardo Labella completed his elementary education at Mabolo Elementary School in 1963 and secondary education in 1967 at the University of the Visayas where he earned his bachelor's degree in political science in 1971.
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Edgardo Labella then took up Bachelor of Laws at the University of San Carlos from 1973 to 1977, and was admitted to the Integrated Bar of the Philippines in 1978.
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Edgardo Labella was then promoted to Junior Presidential Staff Officer in the same office and concurrently became a legal consultant of the National Institute of Science and Technology.
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In March 1980, Edgardo Labella was designated as legal officer in the Office of the Tanodbayan and was promoted to trial attorney in September 1983.
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Edgardo Labella then became a Special Prosecutor from April 1983 to November 1986.
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Edgardo Labella was appointed Director of the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas from 1994 to 1998.
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Edgardo Labella started his political career as a councilor for the Cebu City 1st district in the Cebu City Council in 1998.
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Edgardo Labella then returned to his old post in 2004 and served until 2013 where he became the Majority Floor Leader in the 12th Sangguniang Panlungsod.
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Edgardo Labella accepted the offer of Rama to be his candidate for vice mayor in the 2013 elections where he defeated the incumbent vice mayor Joy Augustus Young of BOPK by 184 votes.
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Edgardo Labella became acting mayor of Cebu City on December 11,2015, after Mayor Mike Rama was placed under 60-day preventive suspension from the Office of the President in relation to the 2014 demolition of a concrete island and lamppost project in Barangay Labangon.
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Edgardo Labella ran for re-election in the 2016 elections and won by a wider margin of 29,864 votes against Archival of BOPK.
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Edgardo Labella's running mate Rama lost to Tomas Osmena in the 2016 elections.
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Edgardo Labella went on to defeat Osmena by 18,925 votes in the 2019 elections.
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Edgardo Labella was elected as the national chairman of the League of Cities of the Philippines on July 19,2019.
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Edgardo Labella has indicated that he would not stop the development since the cases filed to stop it were already dismissed.
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Edgardo Labella was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as chairman of the Regional Peace and Order Council in Central Visayas October 28,2019.
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Edgardo Labella had to clarify that other food companies were allowed to sell their products along the Sinulog grand parade route after it was reported that SFI entered into another exclusive agreement worth with San Miguel Food Inc.
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Edgardo Labella visited Beltran in detention but denied he had anything to do with the arrest.
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On June 23,2020, upon the pronouncement of the Central Visayas police and order from the Department of the Interior and Local Government, Edgardo Labella cancelled all existing quarantine passes used in Cebu City with the aim of reducing the number of people roaming around the city.
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Edgardo Labella was one of the survivors of the 1998 sinking of the passenger ferry MV Princess of the Orient that sailed from Manila to Cebu during Typhoon Vicki where 150 of the 388 passengers perished.
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Edgardo Labella stayed afloat for 36 hours clad in a life vest until he was found by rescuers.
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Edgardo Labella was a regular runner at the Cebu City Sports Center as a member of the Walk and Talk Club.
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Edgardo Labella underwent surgery and treatment, and the cancer was declared "under control".
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Edgardo Labella later divulged that he "almost died" that time.
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Edgardo Labella had a seven-day wake, with the last three days held at Cebu City Hall for public viewing.