Lady mayors: 'End political killings'

MANILA, Philippines -- Members of the Lady Municipal Mayors Association of the Philippines (LMMAP) has called for an end to all political killings in the country.

The appeal came after the killing of Maconacon, Isabela Mayor Erlinda Domingo who was gunned down recently in Park Villa Apartelle in Barangay West Avenue, Quezon City.

“The Lady Mayors condemn the killing of Mayor Erlinda Domingo, a colleague and public servant. There is no sense to this kind of killings, let us not use the barrel of the gun in governance or in politics it is the cowards way,” said LMMAP National President Annabelle Tangson.

Tangson said the killing of Domingo has put another black mark in the political and electoral system in the Philippines.

Tangson also lamented that the spate of political killings in the Philippines for decades now have placed the country at the top list of the United Nations' human rights watch.

The LMMAP is an association of 280 Lady Mayors in the country.