{"id":111181,"date":"2017-08-10T05:41:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T09:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=111181"},"modified":"2017-08-10T05:41:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T09:41:30","slug":"comelec-chair-decries-there-is-an-orchestrated-campaign-against-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/10\/comelec-chair-decries-there-is-an-orchestrated-campaign-against-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec chair decries: There is an orchestrated campaign against me"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111049\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/600x301-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111049\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/600x301-1.png\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO\/ Andres Bautista\" width=\"600\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/600x301-1.png 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/600x301-1-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO\/ Andres Bautista<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An emotional Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Andres Bautista said on Wednesday that there was a \u2018demolition job\u2019 against him amid allegations by his wife about his alleged billion ill-gotten wealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an orchestrated campaign against me, perhaps the Comelec, the elections,\u201d Bautista said in an interview on ANC\u2019s \u2018Headstart\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista\u2019s estranged wife, Patricia, indicted the Comelec chairman of having illegally-gotten wealth which are not reflected in his annual Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN).<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed concern with his four young children who have stopped going to school because of the spat with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy kids don\u2019t go to school anymore. They\u2019re being bullied,\u201d Bautista said.<\/p>\n<p>Holding back his tears, the poll chief also said he worries about the children to which his wife answered that \u2018the universe will take care of them\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSabi ko, \u2018Paano mangyayari sa mga bata kapag ito ay nabulatlat sa buong mundo?\u2019 (I told her, what will happen to the kids if the world will know about this). Sabi niya (she answered) , \u2018No, no, the universe will take care of them,\u201d Bautista recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe documents in her possession were stolen from our home in November last year. She stole these after she locked me out of our condominium unit,\u201d Bautista added.<\/p>\n<p>He said the financial records were not his alone but also included those of his family. He added the Bautista family would answer the unexplained wealth allegations in a news conference soon.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista\u2019s wife has records of bank deposits, checks, ATM records, among other documents to support her claim that Bautista did not declare his 2016 SALN.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista bare that he has filed on Tuesday formal complaints against his wife for grave coercion, qualified theft and robbery, and extortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emotional Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Andres Bautista said on Wednesday that there was a \u2018demolition job\u2019 against him &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[10576,3716,20950],"class_list":["post-111181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-andres-bautista","tag-comelec","tag-patricia-bautista","mauthors-carlo-jacob-molina","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}