Agustin Perdices
Agustin Perdices was a Filipino politician. Perdices served as the Mayor of the city of Dumaguete for eighteen years before being elected Vice Governor of Negros Oriental in the gubernatorial election in May 2010. However, Perdices who was the Vice-Governor-elect became Governor-elect of Negros Oriental following the death of incumbent Governor Emilio Macias II from cancer on June 13, 2010. He then officially took the post of governor in June 30, 2010.
In November 2010, Governor Perdices announced that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer, just five months after taking office. Perdices died at St. Luke's Global City hospital in Taguig City, at 5 p.m. on January 5, 2011, at the age of 76.
