FLOR MARCELINO, NDP: An immigrant’s journey to politics
FLOR MARCELINO, NDP: An immigrant’s journey to politics
Delighted grandparents Flor & Orli shows off grandsons Elias & Sandigan for her 2016 calendar.
By Ted Alcuitas
Philippine Canadian News
It was a bizarre twist that first catapulted Flor Marcelino to the political stage in 2007 for the NDP, making political history as the first woman of colour to be elected to a provincial legislature.
Today, after two successive terms, she is seeking another term in a political climate vastly different from 2007.
His brother-in-law, Ted Marcelino, is seeking a second term in the Tyndall riding.
The then relatively unknown Marcelino was ‘minding her own business’ and in semi-retirement on a fateful afternoon in May when three NDP representatives unexpectedly showed up.
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