Arjo Atayde seeks political debut as Quezon City congressman

Award-winning actor Arjo Atayde is running in the Quezon City 1st District congressional race, where he will be pitted against reelectionist congressman Onyx Crisologo.

Atayde filed his certificate of candidacy on Friday, October 8, accompanied by Mayor Joy Belmonte.

While Atayde is allied with Belmonte, Crisologo is allied with Anakalusugan Representative Michael Defensor, Belmonte’s challenger in the Quezon City mayoral race.

Arjo Atayde seeks political debut as Quezon City congressman

Atayde said in a press statement that he was the one who approached Belmonte and asked how he could help more.

Atayde is regarded asone of the most versatile actors of his generation. He won Best Actor at the 3rd Asian Academy Creative Awards 2020 for his role in the iWant and Dreamscape series Bagman.

Atayde is a newbie in politics but he has made a name for himself in Quezon City’s 1st District for donating service vehicles to its barangays.

Crisologo is the son of veteran politician Bingbong Crisologo. The younger Crisologo served three times as councilor in Quezon City before being elected as a congressman in 2019. – Rappler.com

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Rambo Talabong

Rambo Talabong covers the House of Representatives and local governments for Rappler. Prior to this, he covered security and crime. He was named Jaime V. Ongpin Fellow in 2019 for his reporting on President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. In 2021, he was selected as a journalism fellow by the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics.