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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said it has already received the Temporary Restraining Order issued by the Supreme Court in response to the petition of the Duterte Youth Party List on the substitution of the nominees of the P3PWD Party List.
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MANILA - The Supreme Court (SC) issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) stopping the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from allowing the substitution of former Comelec commissioner Rowena Amelia V. Guanzon as party-list representative. The order stopped the Comelec and the House of Representatives from allowing Guanzon and the other substituting nominees to assume office as member of the 19th Congress during the pendency of the case. The SC also required the Comelec, House of Representatives, Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD) Party-List and its nominees led by Guanzon to comment on the petition within a non-extendible period of 10 days. A party-list group earlier filed a petition before the SC questioning the circumstances under which the Comelec allowed its former commissioner to be nominated as a party-list group candidate. In its petition, the Duterte Youth (Duty to Energize the Republic through the Enlightenment of the Youth) through chairman Ro
Acting Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco (File photo) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will abide by the Supreme Court's temporary restraining order (TRO) that stopped the poll body from allowing former Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon to substitute as top nominee of P3PWD party-list. Acting Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco confirmed that the Commission received the order Wednesday afternoon. "This is to confirm the receipt of the Temporary Restraining Order issued by the Honorable Supreme Court in GR No. 261123 'Duterte Youth vs. the Comelec, the House of Representatives and P3PWD Party List'," he said in a statement. Laudiangco said the Comelec will file its comment on the SC's order. "Comelec will comply with the TRO and its directive to file comment. We will seek representation of the OSG (Office of the Solicitor General) as a matter of procedure," he said. Last week, the Comelec denied the verified opposition file