{"id":264805,"date":"2020-08-11T05:11:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T09:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264805"},"modified":"2020-08-11T05:11:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T09:11:38","slug":"palace-condoles-with-family-of-ex-comelec-chief-brillantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/11\/palace-condoles-with-family-of-ex-comelec-chief-brillantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace condoles with family of ex-Comelec chief Brillantes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_264807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264807\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sixto_Brillantes_cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-264807\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sixto_Brillantes_cropped.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sixto_Brillantes_cropped.png 254w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sixto_Brillantes_cropped-220x300.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brillantes\u2019 former chief of staff, election lawyer Emil Mara\u00f1on thanked the former Comelec chair for giving him the \u201cgreat honor\u201d to serve the country by his side. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=93040788\">File photo: Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang expressed sympathy to the family of former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. who died on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque remembered Brillantes for serving the nation well during his term as Comelec chairperson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe condole po with the family of chair Brillantes and of course he served the nation well when he was chairman of the Comelec. Our condolences po,\u201d he said in a virtual Palace briefing in Davao City.<\/p>\n<p>In a message to reporters, Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez confirmed that the former poll chair died on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is to confirm the passing of former Chairperson Sixto S. Brillanes Jr., today at a little past 11 a.m.,&#8221; Jimenez said.<\/p>\n<p>Brillantes\u2019 former chief of staff, election lawyer Emil Mara\u00f1on thanked the former Comelec chair for giving him the \u201cgreat honor\u201d to serve the country by his side.<\/p>\n<p>Last July 26, Brillantes&#8217; daughter Zeena said that her father was intubated at the Medical Center Manila after contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>Brillantes served as Comelec chairperson from January 2011 to February 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, he mulled resignation following a string of Supreme Court decisions unfavorable to the poll body but eventually opted to stay in his post.<\/p>\n<p>Brillantes is a veteran election lawyer, a bar topnotcher, and a son of former Ilocos Sur governor and Comelec commissioner, Sixto Brillantes Sr.<\/p>\n<p>He obtained his bachelor&#8217;s degree in law at San Beda College of Law and graduated class valedictorian. In 1965, he ranked 7th in the bar examinations.<\/p>\n<p>He died just three days before he turns 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang expressed sympathy to the family of former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. who died on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":264807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264805","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=264805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264809,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264805\/revisions\/264809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}