MANILA - Albay Governor Noel Rosal has five days or until Sept. 24 to file a motion for reconsideration on the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division granting the disqualification case filed against him by Joseph San Juan Armogila. Acting Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco said Tuesday the respondent on the disqualification case has five days upon receipt of the resolution of the Division, promulgated on Sept. 19, to appeal the decision. "Under Section 2 of Rule 19, Part IV of the Comelec Rules of Procedure, a motion to reconsider a decision, resolution, order, or ruling of a Division may be filed within five days from the promulgation thereof," he said in a statement. "This considering, as of writing, the Resolution is not yet final and executory, subject to the Rules of Procedure," he added. Given this circumstance, Laudiangco said they cannot remove Rosal yet from his post. "Technically what we are saying is that with the deci
(PNA Bacolod file photo) BACOLOD CITY - The city government here has eased curfew hours starting Thursday as it reverted to Alert Level 2 upon the directive of the national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID). In Executive Order (EO) 60, Mayor Evelio Leonardia said the city will be under Alert Level 2 from December 16 to 31 after he earlier announced that it has been placed by the Department of Health-Western Visayas (DOH-6) under Alert Level 1 on December 13. "Further extension of Alert Level 2 for the City of Bacolod signifies that its fight against Covid-19 is strongly holding up against a surge in cases over the past weeks as the city has succeeded in reaching, as of this time, a 91.58 percent (vaccination) rate of its target population," he added. Leonardia said in consideration of customs and traditions of the Christmas holidays, he has ordered that curfew hours or the non-social period be modified from 11 p.m. to 3 p.m.