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Elections are among those exercises through which a free people are able to delegate their sovereign powers of self-government to their chosen representatives. Surely the Comelec knows that elections have to be free, honest, and fair to be legitimate expressions of the people’s will. It was precisely to make sure that they are, rather than the means through which the oligarchs can endow themselves with a semblance of legitimacy so they can remain in power, that the Comelec was created in 1940 through an amendment in the 1935 Constitution.
MANILA - Abubakar Mangelen, one of the petitioners in the dismissed consolidated disqualification cases against presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Monday filed a motion for reconsideration. Mangelen asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division to reverse its February 10 ruling junking the three disqualification cases filed against the son of the late former President Ferdinand Marcos for lack of merit. The petitioner reiterated that the respondent should not be allowed to run in the May 9 national and local elections for his failure to file the necessary income tax returns (ITRs) from 1982 to 1985. "Clearly, respondent was convicted of failure to file the necessary Tax Returns from 1982 to 1985. The Honorable Court of Appeals removed the penalty of imprisonment imposed by the Honorable Regional Trial Court but replaced it with an alternative penalty of fine which was then imposable under the NIRC (National Internal Revenue Code),"
Akbayan Partylist on Tuesday, Feb. 15, appealed the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division dismissing the three disqualification cases against presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.
Akbayan The group called on the Comelec en banc to reverse the decision
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