Jonas Cabungcal Cortes (born July 20, 1966) is a Filipino politician serving as the Mayor of Mandaue since 2019, a position he previously held from 2007 to 2016.
Cortes won a second term as mayor in 2010 when he received 59.54% of the votes, and also carried his party to win a majority of the seats on the city council after he defeated in a landslide victory former 6th district representative Nerissa Soon Ruiz and her slate.
During the 2019 elections, then mayor Luigi Quisumbing filed plunder and graft cases against Cortes and several former city officials over a sale in 2015 to EC Ouano Development and Management Corp. (Ecodemcor), for a 35,821-square-meter property, which was sold at a recorded price of P50 per sq/m, which turned out to be just part of the purchase price as there was also a donation of several properties in consideration of the said sale.
[10] In August 2024, the Ombudsman issued a one-year preventive suspension without pay on Cortes based on grave misconduct, for his alleged unlawful designation of Camilo Basaca as head of the city's social welfare department.
[14] In November, the Ombudsman-Visayas upheld its dismissal of Maria Priscilla S. Melendres' complaints against Cortes and other city officials.