Mayor of Taguig | |
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Style | The Honorable |
Appointer | Elected via popular vote |
Term length | 3 years |
The mayor of Taguig (Filipino : Punong Lungsod ng Taguig) is the head of the local government of the city of Taguig who is elected to three year terms. The mayor is also the executive head and leads the city's departments in executing the city ordinances and improving public services. The city mayor is restricted to three consecutive terms, totaling nine years, although a mayor can be elected again after an interruption of one term. Lani Cayetano of Nacionalista Party is the incumbent since 2022.
From the start, Taguig has its own chieftain, Lakan named Juan Basi who fought his life against the Spaniard along with Agustin de Legaspi, a nephew of Lakan Dula and son-in-law of the Sultan of Brunei during the Magat Salamat uprising in 1587–1588. But since the year 1584, a non-resident vicar from the Augustinian order named P. Melchor de Ribera was assigned to convert to Christianity the natives of the town.
In 1587 according to P. Gaspar San Agustin, Taguig was once again accepted in the list of "Augustinian Chapter" in a meeting held on April 4, 1587 through "Tomamos de nuevo la casa de Tagui, con voto". [1]
Encomienda de Tagui is under the administration of Capitan Vergara since 1587 with 3,200 population who pays tribute tax amounting to 1,879 & 1/2. The original Nine (9) villages of Taguig are Bagumbayan, Hagonoy, Uaua (Wawa), Bambang, Toctocan (Tuktukan), Ususan (Maysapang), Sta. Ana (Poblacion), Palingong, and Tipas. [2]
Name | Deputy (later Vice Mayor) | Term Began | Term Ended |
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Capitan Municipal de Taguig | |||
Domingo Franco | 1856 | 1857 | |
Vicente Azores | 1857 | 1858 | |
Juan B. Labao | 1859 | 1860 | |
Domingo Guevarra | 1860 | 1861 | |
Venancio Sandoval | 1861 | 1862 | |
Leandro Labao | 1862 | 1863 | |
Salvador Esguerra | 1863 | 1864 | |
Tomas Cruz | 1865 | 1866 | |
Ciriaco Labao | 1867 | 1868 | |
Domingo Guerrero | 1869 | 1870 | |
Agustin Rayos | 1871 | 1872 | |
Leoncio Pagkalinawan | 1873 | 1874 | |
Clemente Labao | 1875 | 1876 | |
1877 | 1878 | ||
Jose Natividad | 1879 | 1880 | |
Feliciano Pagkalinawan | 1881 | 1882 | |
Miguel Aquino | 1887 | 1888 | |
1889 | 1890 | ||
Jose Natividad | 1891 | 1892 | |
Marcos Lontoc | 1893 | 1894 | |
Jose Natividad | 1895 | 1897 | |
Pangulo ng Bayan | |||
Baltazar Capistrano | June 12, 1898 | March 16, 1899 | |
Municipal Mayor of Taguig | |||
Feliciano Pagkalinawan | 1901 | 1903 | |
Felipe Rayos del Sol | 1904 | 1910 | |
Braulio Pagkalinawan | 1911 | 1912 | |
Graciano Juta | 1912 | 1916 | |
Jose Pagtakhan | 1916 | 1925 | |
Eusebio Santos | 1925 | 1931 | |
Cleto Mastrili | 1931 | 1934 | |
Artemio Natividad | Teotimo Cuevas [3] | October 16, 1934 | December 3, 1942 |
Leocadio De Leon | December 4, 1942 | February 17, 1945 | |
Pedro D. Cruz | July 1, 1945 | December 31, 1945 | |
Leocadio De Leon | January 9, 1946 | May 31, 1946 | |
Pedro D. Cruz | June 1, 1946 | December 31, 1947 | |
Nicanor P. Cruz | January 1, 1948 | December 30, 1951 | |
Bonifacio Relon | January 1, 1952 | December 31, 1955 | |
Monico C. Tanyag | January 1, 1956 | December 31, 1975 | |
Levi B. Mariano | April 14, 1976 | March 25, 1986 | |
Isidro Garcia | March 26, 1986 | February 1, 1988 | |
Rodolfo De Guzman | October 10, 1988 | June 30, 1992 | |
Ricardo D. Papa, Jr. | Daniel Castillo | July 6, 1992 [4] | June 30, 1995 |
Isidro Garcia | June 30, 1995 | August 27, 1997 | |
Ricardo D. Papa, Jr. | September 2, 1997 | June 30, 2001 | |
Sigfrido R. Tiñga | June 30, 2001 | December 7, 2004 | |
No. | Image | Name (Birth-Death) | In office | Election | Vice Mayor | Note | ||
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Term start | Term end | Time in office | ||||||
1 | ![]() | Sigfrido Tiñga (born 1965) | 8 December 2004 | 30 June 2010 | 5 years, 204 days | – | George Elias (2004–2013) | |
2007 | ||||||||
2 | ![]() | Lani Cayetano (born 1981) | 30 June 2010 | 30 June 2019 | 9 years, 0 days | 2010 | ||
2013 | Ricardo Cruz Jr. (2013–2022) | |||||||
2016 | ||||||||
3 | ![]() | Lino Cayetano (born 1978) | 30 June 2019 | 30 June 2022 | 3 years, 0 days | 2019 | ||
(2) | ![]() | Lani Cayetano (born 1981) | 30 June 2022 | Incumbent | 358 days | 2022 | Arvin Ian Alit (2022–present) | |
Name | Term Began | Term Ended | Status |
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Acting and Appointed OIC Mayor of Taguig | |||
Aquilino Sarmiento | February 17, 1945 | June 30, 1945 | Acting Mayor during the liberation of Taguig |
Donato L. Estacio, Jr. | December 1, 1987 | October 9, 1988 | Appointed OIC Mayor after EDSA People Power Revolution |
Source: [5] |
Past Mayors of Taguig | ![]() |
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