AN ELECTION commissioner who alleged interference in the disqualification case against Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr. said her vote and that of another member of the First Division probably won’t be counted if the decision comes out after Feb. 3.
Marlon S. Casquejo is moving to the Second Division of the Commission on Elections on Feb. 3, Commissioner Maria Rowena V. Guanzon, who is retiring on Feb. 3, told a forum hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines .
Commissioner Soccoro B. Inting will become the acting chairperson until President Rodrigo R. Duterte appoints the replacements. Ms. Inting is a member of the Second Division, which on Jan. 17 favored Mr. Marcos in a similar lawsuit seeking to bar his presidential run.Ms. Guanzon, an appointee of the late President Benigno S.C. Aquino III — Mr. Duterte’s predecessor — has alleged that a senator from Davao whom she has not named was trying to meddle in the Marcos disqualification cases.
She also said she had named the senator in question to Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III, adding that she would name him in case the chamber starts an investigation.
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