SAN FERNANDO, Camarines Sur---Getting the nod and assurance of support from convicted and pardoned plunderer Joseph Estrada, the town mayor here said Wednesday he is ready to face off with presidential son Rep. Diosdado “Dato” Arroyo of the first district of Camarines Sur in the 2010 congressional race.  

        Mayor Fermin Mabulo said the United Opposition (UNO) figurehead Estrada has already given him assurance to challenge the incumbency of Arroyo by providing him all the logistical support in order to seriously put up a good fight.  

        Mabulo’s plan to run against the presidential son will be the second attempt of their family to clash with the powerful Arroyo family in the political race in this 10-town district wherein the biggest town has been adopted residence of the presidential son since late 2006.  

        Arroyo won over Sabas Mabulo, elder brother of the current mayor and a three-term mayor of SanFernando, which was tagged during the 2007 election as the fight of a “David” against a “Goliath”.  

        The younger Mabulo said there is reason to continue the fight against the Arroyos in order to “democratize” the power they now posses in the Hall of Congress, specially that President Macapagal-Arroyo is speculated to be running for Congress.  

        “At present, there are already four Arroyos in Congress. Are we going to allow this? If not, the only way is to beat them in the electoral race,” the mayor said.  

        He said he is all set and ready to redeem propriety of the Bicolanos by electing their leaders from their own place even with unexpected development with the plan of Estrada to run again in the presidential race.  

        Mabulo is a member of Philippine Military Academy Marilag Class of 1995, the core of soldiers that staged the Oakwood Mutiny in July 2003.  

        He was charged of coup de tat in the Supreme Court but it was dismissed in December 2004. After the dismissal of the case, he went into self-exile in the United Kingdom for three years.  

        He went home here in 2007 to run and win in the mayoral race.