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Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III has urged the Commission on Elections en banc to urgently resolve the petition seeking to cancel Marikina Mayor Marcy Teodoro ’s certificate of candidacy in the congressional race.Pimentel filed an urgent motion to resolve before the poll body last March 26, reiterating that the Comelec First Division had already ruled in favor of the petitioners on December 11, 2024, ordering the cancellation of Teodoro’s COC.
In their prayer for relief, Pimentel and his co-petitioners requested that the December 2024 ruling which cancelled Teodoro’s COC be affirmed and that the latter’s Motion for Reconsideration be dismissed outright.GMA News Online has sought the comment of Teodoro and Comelec Chairman George Garcia, but they have yet to respond as of posting time.
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