The Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (WPP) has filed a motion for reconsideration (MR) challenging the Comelec's decision to allow detained televangelist Apollo Quiboloy to run in the 2025 elections. The WPP argues that Quiboloy's candidacy, while facing charges of child sex trafficking, mocks the electoral process and exposes inconsistencies in the Comelec's treatment of candidates. They cite the case of Sultan Subair Guinthium Mustapha, a respected Muslim leader and WPP candidate, who was declared a nuisance candidate. The WPP calls for the Comelec to review the First Division's resolution, disqualify Quiboloy, and harmonize its procedural rules to ensure fairness for all candidates.
The Workers’ and Peasants’ Party on Monday filed a motion for reconsideration seeking to overturn a Commission on Elections decision that junked a petition to disqualify detained televangelist Apollo Quiboloy from running in the May 2025 elections. In filing their MR, WPP president and labor leader Sonny Matula reiterated Quiboloy’s candidacy “mocks the electoral process” as he alleged the poll body ruling “exposes glaring inconsistencies” in the treatment of candidates.
Earlier, the Comelec First Division dismissed a petition seeking to disqualify Quiboloy, saying "there is a dearth of evidence presented by Petitioner that could convince us that the Respondent should be declared as a nuisance candidate."The petition filed by Matula alleged Quiboloy of "material misrepresentation" and asked Comelec to disqualify him as a senatorial candidate saying that the latter's nomination by WPP “had no factual and legal basis.
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