DILG reinstates Austria, Esquivel steps down
(World News Austria)

JAEN, Nueva Ecija – The political tug-of-war between two opposing mayors here ended Monday night after court-installed mayor Antonio Prospero Esquivel stepped down from office to give way to Mayor Sylvia C. Austria, who was reinstated to her previous post by virtue of a status quo ante order issued by the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) Second Division on January 12, 2021. This developed as the Second Division also on Monday granted Austria’s petition for the issuance of a writ of preliminary injunction ordering Regional Trial Court Judge Angelo C. Perez, of Branch 87, Gapan City to cease and desist...