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TACLOBAN CITY – A court has dismissed the election protest filed by losing mayoral candidate Lope Dorado Jr. against Catarman, Northern Samar Mayor Antet Rosales.
In a decision dated Aug. 26, 2022, the Regional Trial Court Branch 20 in Catarman upheld the validity of the proclamation of Rosales as
A local court has dismissed the election protest filed by defeated mayoral candidate Lope Dorado Jr. against Mayor Antet Rosales of Catarman in Northern Samar.
Catarman, Northern Samar Mayor Antet Rosales. (Photo from FB page of Mayor Rosales) TACLOBAN CITY - A regional trial court (RTC) dismissed the election protest filed by the opponent of the newly-elected Catarman, Northern Samar Mayor Antet Rosales. RTC Branch 20 in Catarman town, in its decision dated August 26, 2022, dismissed the election protest filed by Catarman mayoral candidate Lope Dorado Jr. against Rosales. "The Court hereby renders judgment, dismissing the election protest and declaring as valid the proclamation of Antet Rosales as the duly elected Municipal Mayor of Catarman," the RTC said in a copy of its decision released to reporters by the Northern Samar provincial government on Wednesday. Dorado filed his election protest on May 17, 2022, seeking to annul the results of the elections, citing irregularities in the May 9 polls. He alleged that the machines did not count some of the votes in his favor and that there was a massive substitution of voters in the clu