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Remengesau to visit constituents in CNMI
Incumbent Palau President Thomas Esang “Tommy” Remengesau Jr. is due to arrive on Saipan on June 26 to meet with his constituents living in diaspora. The meeting is set on the same day at 6pm at the Chamolinian Utt in Garapan.
Remengasau’s visit is in connection to the upcoming presidential elections where he is running for reelection against Sens. Sandra Pierantozzi and Surangel Whipps Jr.
The election primary is set on Sept. 27 with the Top 2 candidates facing off in the general election on Nov. 1.
There are more than 1,000 Palauan nationals living and working in the CNMI, 500 of whom are registered voters, according to the Palau Consulate Office.
Remengesau became Palau’s sixth president who was elected twice, first from 2001 to 2009 and then 2013 to the present. His father, Thomas Sr., twice served as Palau’s president in 1985 and from 1988 to 1989.
Pierantozzi served as Palau’s vice oresident from 2001 to 2005 and lost her reelection bid to former Justice minister Elias Camsek Chin. She also held ministerial positions in Finance and Health before being elected to serve the vacant seat of the late Sen. Kath Kesolei.
She ran in the 2012 primaries against Remengesau and then re-electionist Johnson Toribiong where she placed third with 1,690 votes. Remengesau garnered 4,617 while Toribiong had 3,100.
Whipps Jr., whose father served as Palau’s Senate President from 2007 to 2009, was elected to the 8th Palau National Congress (Olbiil era Kelulau) in 2008 as a write-in candidate. He is Palau’s honorary consul to Korea since 1996.
Koror State Gov. Yositaka Adachi, who will be running for vice president, will also visit the Palauan community on Saipan on July 9.
Aileen Kintol of the Palau Consulate Office said registered voters can now request for their absentee ballots ahead of the September primary and the November general elections.
The Palau Consulate is located at the Sablan Building in Chalan Piao. For more information, call Kintol at 285-7538.
