CEBU CITY – Aside from two residents, a lawyer has also filed a petition before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) seeking to disqualify dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes from next year’s polls.
CEBU CITY – Aside from two residents, a lawyer has also filed a petition before the Commission on Elections seeking to disqualify dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes from next year’s polls.
In his petition, Estandarte said that in the dorsal portion of Cortes’ COC, a question was posed to disclose any case to indicate the case docket, case, title, date filed, and status.“Such entry N/A is a material representation of respondent’s COC for he knew fully well that he was dismissed from service by the Ombudsman and he received such order on Oct. 3, 2024,” said Estandarte in his petition. Cortes filed his COC on Oct. 4.
“Such material representation is knowingly made because on 3 October 2024, a day prior to filing of the respondent’s COC, he received an amended order of the Ombudsman dismissing him from the service to sit as mayor of Mandaue City, Cebu. Thus, he should have indicated in his COC such fact of his dismissal from service. Clearly therefore, by indicating N/A is a material representation necessitating the denial of due course to or cancellation of his COC,” Estandarte said.
The petitioner also cited a previous Supreme Court ruling stating “the denial of due course or the cancellation of the COC is not based on the lack of qualification that the candidate made a material representation that is false.”
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