2016 Toa Baja PNP Primary

Considered the most surprising result of the 2016 Primaries due to Vega Borges' strong prior reelections, Márquez hit Vega Borges hard on the muncipality's budget hole; here Márquez campaigned on a increasing cooperative relations with local businesses as well as comunity consensus for municipal action

Likewise, it is atributed by El Nuevo Día that the participation of the PPD, and other minor parties in the local primary also probably helped Betito Márquez, as the—ascribed by this result—desire for change overode partisanship, moving people to vote in the PNP primary to force out the once popular incumbent