(UPDATE) THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has heeded the recommendation of its Law Division to declare 117 senatorial aspirants as nuisance candidates. This is more than half the 183 aspirants who filed their certificates of candidacy for the position.
THE Commission on Elections has heeded the recommendation of its Law Division to declare 117 senatorial aspirants as nuisance candidates. This is more than half the 183 aspirants who filed their certificates of candidacy for the position.Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia said that while the motu propio petition had been granted, the aspirants could still file a motion for reconsideration before the Comelec en banc or seek a restraining order from the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, nuisance petitions against 300 local candidates are still being deliberated and will be decided by the end of November.Garcia said he was hopeful that everything would be settled before the Comelec started printing the official ballots, which was why they decided the cases early, so the affected aspirants could get due process by going all the way to the Supreme Court.
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