Angelito Gatlabayan

Who is Angelito Gatlabayan?

Angelito C. Gatlabayan is a Filipino politician. A member of the NPC party, he was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, representing the 2nd District of Antipolo City beginning in 2007. Prior to his election to Congress, Gatlabayan was elected to three terms as the 1st City Mayor of Antipolo City, serving from 1998 to 2007.

An Antipolonian native as he was born and raised in the City to parents Former Vice Mayor Maximo Leyva Gatlabayan and Catalina Legado Cabaron. Before his stint as the City Mayor of Antipolo for consecutive years, he worked and held top positions in various multinational companies such as Handyware Philippines, Macstrat Incorporated, N.P Foods Company, Nagai Package Company, Philippine Cellophane Film Corporation and Union Ajinomoto Philippines.

At the dawn of Antipolo's transition into cityhood he was then elected as its first local chief executive on May 15, 1998 and was then re-elected to a second term via landslide victory by more than 42,000 votes last May 5, 2001. Mayor Gatlabayan guides the second largest municipality in Rizal Province, exercising authority over Antipolo City's 800,000 million budget and representing its 500 thousand residents.