MANILA - The Akbayan party-list on Tuesday asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to reconsider its decision junking their petition to disqualify presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. from the May 9 elections. In a 16-page motion for reconsideration (MR), Akbayan chairperson emeritus Etta Rosales, First Nominee Percival Cendana, and Second Nominee Dr. RJ Naguit called on the Comelec en banc to reverse the decision of its First Division and include the points raised by retired Commissioner Rowena Guanzon in her separate opinion in the deliberation of the case. "Wherefore, the Petitioners respectfully pray that the Resolution dated 10 February 2022 of the Former First Division of this Honorable Commission be set aside and that the instant Petition for Disqualification be granted," the motion said. Cendana said they will pursue the case until the end. "The fight is far from over. Bongbong cannot just sweep this under the rug. His tax evasion c
MANILA - The Akbayan party-list on Tuesday asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to reconsider its decision junking their petition to disqualify presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. from the May 9 elections. In a 16-page motion for reconsideration (MR), Akbayan chairperson emeritus Etta Rosales, First Nominee Percival Cendana, and Second Nominee Dr. RJ Naguit called on the Comelec en banc to reverse the decision of its First Division and include the points raised by retired Commissioner Rowena Guanzon in her separate opinion in the deliberation of the case. "Wherefore, the Petitioners respectfully pray that the Resolution dated 10 February 2022 of the Former First Division of this Honorable Commission be set aside and that the instant Petition for Disqualification be granted," the motion said. Cendana said they will pursue the case until the end. "The fight is far from over. Bongbong cannot just sweep this under the rug. His tax evasion c
Comelec Commissioner Rowena Guanzon (File photo) MANILA - An official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday said she will require the camp of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to present his notarized medical certificate following his failure to attend a preliminary conference of the disqualification cases filed against him last week. First Division presiding Commissioner Rowena Guanzon said she would order Dr. Benedict Francis Valdecanas, Marcos' attending physician, to submit a notarized medical certificate that was read by the respondent's lawyer during the January 7 preliminary conference. "Now I have to require the doctor who examined Marcos Jr to have his medical certificate notarized and indicate his medical license number," she posted on her Twitter account, @rowena guanzon Monday. Based on the medical certificate, the physician said Marcos had a temperature of 37.8 degrees Celsius, and his throat was hyperemic and sw
MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has given the parties in the two disqualification cases filed against presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bong Bong" Marcos Jr. 48 hours to file their memoranda. Presiding Commissioner Rowena Guanzon ordered petitioners Bonifacio Ilagan, and Akbayan and Marcos to submit through electronic mail (e-mail) their memorandum on Sunday. "Lawyers hereby given 48 hours to file their memorandum. Your 48 hours begin noon today (Friday). You're to file memorandum via email. And hard copy the next day. If the court received it, it is deemed filed. January 9 at noon on Sunday via email, then hard copy on Monday, January 10 at noon," Guanzon said after Friday's preliminary conference of the cases held at the session hall of the Comelec main office in Intramuros, Manila. Lawyers Jake Rey Fajardo and Antonio Salvador, represented Akbayan and Ilagan, respectively during the conference. Lawyer Hanna Barcena, meanwhile, represented Ma
Akbayan Akbayan Partylist on Thursday, Dec. 9, said the Supreme Court’s (SC) decision on the constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 on most of its provisions “is still a threat to human rights and political and civil liberties.” In a statement, Akbayan expressed its “grave di