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
Rowena Guanzon (File photo) MANILA - The Duterte Youth party-list filed a petition before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, questioning the validity of the late substitution of former elections commissioner Rowena Guanzon as the new first nominee of the Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD), a winning party-list group. In seeking a temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction against the Commission on Elections (Comelec), Duterte Youth party-list Rep. Ducielle Cardema claimed the substitution is "a deliberate attempt to defraud the electorate and to create the impression that there is no more option but to allow the new substituting first nominee to sit in Congress or else their vote will be disenfranchised". National Youth Commission Chair Ronald Cardema joined the filing of the petition for certiorari to stop Comelec from issuing a certificate of proclamation to Guanzon. The Cardemas noted that Guanzon's substitution violates Comel
MANILA-Duterte Youth Party-list Rep. Ducielle Cardema on Friday filed a formal opposition before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to the late substitution of former Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon as the new first nominee of the winning party-list group of the Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD). In a letter addressed to Comelec Executive Director Bartolome Sinocruz Jr., Cardema lodged her objection to Guanzon's substitution as it violates the Comelec rules on the deadline of substitution, as well as the Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards of Public Officials and Employees. Cardema noted that the P3PWD Party-List filed its new substitution documents way beyond the Comelec Substitution Deadline of November 15, 2021 in cases of voluntary withdrawal and beyond the added Comelec Substitution Deadline of May 9, 2022, or during election day, in rare cases of death or incapacity. "Comelec cannot violat
Retired Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon (File photo) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday has approved the nomination of former commissioner Rowena Guanzon to represent Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD) party-list. "Upon majority vote, the Commission on Elections in its regular en banc meeting today, June 15, 2022, approved the recommendation of the Law Department on the June 14, 2022 submission of Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD) Party List," poll body acting spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco said in a statement. He said the decision granted the respective withdrawal of nomination of the group's original set of nominees Grace S. Yeneza, Ira Paulo A. Pozon, Marianne Heidi Cruz Fullon, Peter Jonas R. David, and Lily Grace A. Tiangco. It also gave due course to the new list of nominees which include Guanzon, Rosalie J. Garcia, Cherrie B. Belmonte-Lim, Donnabel C. Tenorio and Rod
Kontra Daya has expressed hope that retired Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Rowena Guanzon will reconsider her decision to be the first nominee of the party-list group Komunidad ng Pamilya Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD) as this might be perceived as improper.
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