File photo shows then Angeles City Councilor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr. during one of the City Council sessions in 2017. Lazatin served two terms as City Councilor before being elected for two terms as City Mayor in 2019 and 2022.
He is set to run as Representative of the First District of Pampanga in 2025.
Lazatin’s father and namesake, Carmelo “Tarzan” Lazatin, served in the same position from 1987 to 1998 and from 2007 to 2013.
