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Former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (File photo) MANILA - A second petition for disqualification has been filed against the presidential bid of former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. in the May 2022 polls has been filed at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday. In a 13-page petition for disqualification, the petitioners, led by the Akbayan Citizens Action Party (Akbayan), sought to disqualify the former lawmaker from running for president after being convicted of tax evasion in 1995. They added that such conviction prohibits him from holding public office. "Petitioners respectfully submit that the Respondent should be disqualified as a candidate for President of the Republic of the Philippines on the grounds, each of which is sufficient to disqualify the Respondent, namely the Respondent is perpetually disqualified from holding public office; the Respondent was convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude, and the Respondent was

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