Joy Belmonte

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Joy Belmonte
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Belmonte in 2023
11th Mayor of Quezon City
Incumbent
Assumed office
June 30, 2019

On February 14, 2018, she announced that she intends to run for the mayoral position of Quezon City in the 2019 local elections. She had agreed to run under the Hugpong ng Pagbabago with incumbent councilor and actor Gian Sotto as her running mate. [17] She was also among the pioneer members of Partido Federal ng Pilipinas when the party was officially launched in October 2018. [18]

Her platform included furthering women's rights, adding closed-circuit television cameras along streets, improving the documentation of public projects, and an intensified anti-drug campaign. [19] [20] The platform was created with the help of 50 experts in multiple fields. [21] Other more concrete points of her platform included child-minding centers, creating homes for abandoned senior citizens, a 24/7 emergency hotline, and discounts for solo parents and PWDs. [19] Joy also signed a covenant with women leaders of the Quezon City Community Women Leaders’ Federation. [22] This covenant assured adherence to the points of the Quezon City Community Women Leaders’ Federation ten-point agenda, such as having a specialty clinic for women illnesses and mental health and a livelihood training center for women entrepreneurs. [22]

She won against her closest rival, then-incumbent 1st District representative Vincent Crisologo, in a large margin and was proclaimed the 11th Mayor of Quezon City. [23]

On her first months in office, she led road-clearing operations on city roads through the creation of the "Task Force 60 Days" following the 60-day directive to all local executive chiefs given by then president Rodrigo Duterte. Belmonte had also asked for an extension of the deadline, stating that Quezon City is "too large" for the mandate to be done within the required duration. [24]

In September 2019, she ordered to relocate a monument dedicated to former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. at the intersection of Quezon Avenue and Timog Avenue for road-widening with the consent of the Aquino family. [25] Stalls inside the Quezon City Memorial Circle were also dismantled. [26] She also created the "Task Force on Solid Waste Collection, Cleaning, and Disposal Services Management". [27]

Belmonte in 2024 Chinese New Year festival Joy Belmonte.jpg
Belmonte in 2024 Chinese New Year festival

Belmonte took charge of Quezon City's COVID-19 pandemic response beginning in 2020. Free COVID-19 tests were made available for its residents and workers and the city's molecular laboratory was built for speedy release of coronavirus test results. The local government had also provided financial aid to employees of high-risk establishments affected by lockdowns, and care kits to closed-care setting facilities grappling with virus outbreaks. [1] Controversies during this period included a chaotic and overcrowded distribution of supplemental aid in April 2021 and the mauling by local officials of a fish vendor that was not wearing a face mask outdoors in 2020. She also gave Quezon City Task Force Disiplina head Rannie Ludovica, who posted a "shoot-to-kill" threat online against quarantine violators, a "second chance" despite calling his statement "appalling." [28]

She was re-elected to her second consecutive term in 2022 through a landslide victory, defeating her closest rival, AnaKalusugan party-list representative Mike Defensor. [29]

Controversies

Delivering relief goods using garbage truck

In March 2020, amidst of COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines and lockdowns was enforced, the relief goods was distributed in Pasong Tamo, but it was loaded from a garbage truck. Belmonte was later criticized in social media, and some of the personalities who questioned it was comedian Kitkat, and manager Ogie Diaz. But in some barangays were safely loaded in a service van. [30] The city government later denied the issue, and later stated that the truck used was only a utility truck. [31] The summit express later tagged it as fake news. [32]

Personal life

Belmonte married Raymond Alimurung, the first Filipino CEO of Lazada Philippines. [33] They have a son. [34]

In 2010, she was awarded the Gawad Lingkod Masa Award by Gabriela Women's Party due to her work on protecting and helping out distressed women. [35]

On July 8, 2020, Belmonte disclosed that she had tested positive for COVID-19 and was an asymptomatic carrier. As a result, her office and other common areas in the Quezon City Hall were closed for disinfection. [36] [37] On March 29, 2021, Belmonte announced that she had tested positive again and was symptomatic. [38]

Electoral history

Vice mayorality race

2010 Quezon City vice mayoral election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Joy Belmonte 503,657 69.98
PMP Aiko Melendez*122,58417.03
LDP Janet Malaya75,30210.46
Independent Dave Planas8,3501.16
Independent Allan Bantilo4,2480.59
Independent Rodrigo Kapunan3,3340.46
Independent Ma. Floriza Pusing8510.12
KBL Rolando Jota7730.11
Independent Apolinario Tubera6400.09
Majority381,07352.95%
Valid ballots719,73993.50
Invalid or blank votes50,0386.50
Total votes769,777 100.00
Liberal hold
2013 Quezon City vice mayoral election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Joy Belmonte 546,707 78.49
Independent Rolando Jota38,2995.50
Margin of victory508,40872.99
Valid ballots585,00683.99
Invalid or blank votes111,51916.01
Total votes696,525 100.00
Liberal hold
2016 Quezon City Vice mayoral election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Joy Belmonte [39] 736,274 80.73%
PGP Henry Samonte [39] 26,2542.88%
UNA Rolando Jota [39] 10,2381.12%
PDP–Laban Allan Bantillo [39] 10,1371.11%
Nacionalista Glen Acol [39] 5,1510.57%
Margin of victory710,02077.85%
Valid ballots788,05486.41%
Invalid or blank votes123,97413.59%
Total votes912,028 100%
Liberal hold

Mayorality race

2019 Quezon City mayoral election
PartyCandidateVotes%
SBP Joy Belmonte [40] 469,480 54.09
PDP–Laban Vincent Crisologo 366,21542.19
KDP Chuck Mathay* [40] 19,1062.20
Independent Emma Orozco3,5880.41
PM Henry Samonte2,8100.32
Independent Romeo Acebedo2,1420.24
Independent Andoy Rosales2,1280.24
Independent Esmeraldo Balosa1,1290.13
PGRP Alex Lague8280.09
PDDS Teodoro Rusios5550.06
Total votes867,981 100.00
2022 Quezon City mayoral election [29]
PartyCandidateVotes%
SBP Joy Belmonte 662,611 60.43
PFP Mike Defensor 419,06438.74
Independent Glenda Araneta4,2820.39
Independent Diosdado Velasco2,9810.27
PDSP Ricardo Bello2,6420.24
Independent Wilhelmina Orozco1,8990.17
WPP Jose Ingles Jr.1,2380.11
Independent Tomas Salutan Jr.9750.09
Independent Rolando Jota8530.08
Total votes1,096,545 100.00

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2010–2019		Succeeded by
Mayor of Quezon City
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