Former senator and presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.(PNA photo by Robert Oswald Alfier) MANILA - An official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday said the resolution of the petition to cancel the certificate of candidacy (COC) of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. may be issued before the end of this year. "It's probably going to be something around December because right now we're already ending the first week of November and with five days to answer and three days to submit memoranda, that's one week gone. Then you have to talk about different schedules, so I'm estimating maybe late in December," Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said in a television interview. He said the process will take a few weeks. "We give them five and three days but you have to understand there's scheduling to consider. Number 2, there is the question of when they will actually receive the summon bec