Manila, Jan. 27 -- Former mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog has expressed gratitude to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. for granting him executive clemency in connection with his 2017 administrative case, attributing the decision to his past accomplishments as Iloilo City's local chief executive.

"It is adjudication, it is a restoration. And I thank President Bongbong Marcos Jr., for giving me this opportunity to be able to vote and exercise my right to vote and to be voted upon," he said on Monday as he addressed his supporters following a thanksgiving mass at his residence in Barangay Tap-oc in Molo District.

"I again commit myself to the best service of the Filipino people according to what the President believed in - that is to do what is ...