During his term as governor, he was also the treasurer of the League of Provinces of the Philippines.🇵🇠During the 1998 elections, he ran for mayor of Santo Tomas, Batangas, which he subsequently won.
[1] His opponents included former Justice Secretary Hernando Perez, former Board Member Dennis Hernandez and former Nasugbu Mayor Rosario Apacible.
On April 13, 2015, Melinda “Mei” Magsino, a journalist of the Philippine Daily Inquirer until 2005 who covered corruption and illegal gambling ("jueteng") issues in Batangas, was also shot dead.
Records from the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) showed that Magsino reported “threats” to her life sometime in 2005, during which she exposed alleged corruption and illegal gambling activities of late Batangas Governor Armando Sanchez.
Sanchez was rushed to the Mary Mediatrix Medical Center in Lipa City on April 26, 2010, after collapsing during a campaign and was placed inside an intensive care unit.
[7] Sanchez suffered a stroke due to fatigue, decreased sugar levels and severe hypertension, dying April 27, 2010.