The Comelec First Division has denied the petition for disqualification filed by the group Pudno Nga Ilokano against presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos Jr., the last remaining disqualification case pending against him at the division level. READ:
The Commission on Elections First Division has denied the petition for disqualification filed by the group Pudno Nga Ilokano against presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the last remaining disqualification case pending against him at the division level.In the resolution t promulgated on Wednesday, April 20, the First Division denied the petition for “lack of merit” and addressed each of the petitioners’ claim to disqualify Marcos Jr.
For having been found guilty, by final judgment, of a crime that carries the penalty of more than 18 months also pursuant to Sec. 12 of the OEC. Their petition for disqualification is the seventh and final disqualification case pending against Marcos Jr. at the division level.Repeated failure to file income tax returns is not a crime involving moral turpitude.
“An assiduous study of the records and relevant jurisprudence yields to a conclusion that there is no moral turpitude in this case,” the resolution read. The resolution said that the petitioners are “gravely mistaken” and that the petitioners’ assertions are “erroneous and misleading”. Is the penalty of perpetual disqualification from holding any public office, to vote and to participate in any election under Article 286 of the 1977 NIRC, as amended by P.D. No. 1994, an accessory penalty and automatically imposed with the principal penalty?
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