Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto on Monday assured the public that this year's Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections would be clean and orderly.

"This will be the cleanest barangay elections in Pasig City," Sotto said during the flag-raising ceremony.

He shared that the city government will closely monitor the elections should there be someone who attempts to do something that is against the conduct of peaceful, fair and honest elections.

The city government, the mayor added, will run after these individuals and file a case against them.

He discouraged anyone who intends to do something that would impede the conduct of fair and honest BSKE in Pasig City.

Sotto also clarified the speech he made during the flag-raising ceremony last week to streamline his key messages. He reiterated that what he shared last week is how he selects the candidates that he will vote for, may it be the local or national elections.

He shared that when selecting a candidate, there are obvious choices — between an honest and dishonest candidate, he'd choose the honest candidate; between a candidate that is an absentee or the one who is dependable, he'd choose the dependable — there are and these are the obvious choices.

Sotto, however, said that this is not always the case. There are instances when there are no obvious choices among two to three candidates — this is when he usually goes for the new candidate.

"But between a candidate who is honest and not, regardless if the candidate is an incumbent or new candidate, then choose the one who is honest (an obvious choice). If only uncertain, then choose the new candidate," the mayor said.