A convicted “suertres” financier who pleaded guilty to a lesser crime and running for barangay captain in Montana, Baclayon, will face a libel complaint for libelous propaganda in an apparent bid to save his candidacy from imminent collapse. Oscar Quinal who was sentenced to suffer a 90-day imprisonment by Presiding Judge Dionisio Calibo, Jr. of the Regional Trial Court Branch 50 in Loay for violation of the illegal gambling law was clutching at straws to salvage a bid that is going nowhere two days into the barangay elections. Quinal's group has resorted to black propaganda to gain the sympathy of voters who know better than vote for someone whose only claim to fame is shortchanging bettors of his illegal operations. Many times in the past that he was the object of irate bettors after he failed to pay completely the winning price known in illegal gambling lingo as “dividendo”.

Dividendo victims are waiting for the day that they will be able to exact revenge to a financier who put one over them during the rare times that they won their bets out of Quinal's illegal operations. With the barangay elections coming in tomorrow, the time has come for the angry bettors to lower the boom in a form of a vote to a financier who robbed them of the full chances of winning a suertres bet. Contemplating to file a libel complaint against Quinal are members of the Montana barangay council whom he and two others accused of pocketing the barangay share of a batching plant located in Montana. Two of his cohorts who run under his ticket identified as Fidel Malicse and Eleuterio Banua will be included in the complaint for misleading the people of the true state of tax revenues due the barangay from the operation of the batching plant. As incumbent members of the barangay council, Malicse and Banua knew fully well that it was simply not true that money intended for the barangay was diverted to the pockets of his colleagues.

For putting libelous words into the mouth of their candidate, the recalciltrant kagawads are expected to bear the wrath of Quinal who was only mouthing the false allegations fed by his team mates in order to destroy the integrity of his opponents. According to fliers circulated by the group, the Montana barangay captain and his allies in the council pocketed the share of the barangay in the batching plant operations. Truly a figment of the imagination of a losing candidate, the truth of the matter was that the council is yet to finalize a Memorandum of Agreement for the batching plant owner to give a revenue share. An earlier MOA was presented to the owner for a P50,000 yearly share but the management haggled for P30,000 of which the barangay council is ready to consider. With the previous conviction of Quinal of which he was set to apply for probation, any new complaint that will result in having him found guilty, is enough reason to send him to jail.