Comelec has ordered the suspension of proclamation of 19 candidates in the just concluded elections pending resolution of their DQ cases.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc has ordered the suspension of proclamation of 19 candidates in the just concluded midterm elections pending resolution of the disqualification cases filed against them.
Three of the candidates have topped the polls in their areas, among them Marcelino “Marcy” Teodoro, who is leading the race for Marikina City’s first congressional district with more than 45,000 votes over his sole opponent, outgoing Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, as of 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
The Comelec’s First Division had canceled Teodoro’s certificate of candidacy (COC) in December last year following two disqualification cases alleging that he was not a resident for at least a year in the district where he ran.
Teodoro filed a consolidated motion for reconsideration, which is pending before the en banc.
Lawyer Jeryll Harold Respicio, a staunch critic of Comelec’s automated election system, was also poised to win the vice mayoral race in Reina Mercedes, Isabela, but the first division stopped his proclamation “until further orders.”
Respicio is facing a disqualification case filed by Comelec’s Task Force Katotohanan, Katapatan, at Katarungan (KKK) sa Halalan for posting videos online wherein he claimed Comelec’s automated counting machines (ACMs) could be hacked to send fake election results.
