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Mario Lasin Panganiban
Candidate for representative of the Sixth District of Batangas (2025)
Mario Lasin Panganiban is an engineer, lawyer, and political aspirant from Batangas.
He sought public office as a candidate for a city councilor seat in Lipa City during the 2022 local elections but was unsuccessful in that bid. He then filed his candidacy for the congressional seat of Batangas’s sixth legislative district in the 2025 elections under the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas party.
Panganiban earned his degree in Civil Engineering from FEATI University and later pursued legal studies at the University of the East, where he completed his law degree. He has been engaged in private legal practice since 2004 at the Panganiban Law Office.
He is married to Cecilia Panganiban.
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