{"id":28454,"date":"2014-10-10T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T06:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28454"},"modified":"2014-10-10T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T09:32:41","slug":"abalos-to-face-more-raps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/10\/abalos-to-face-more-raps\/","title":{"rendered":"Abalos to face more raps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27067\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27067 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_147175274\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274-900x598.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147175274.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. is facing two more complaints involving the alleged cheating North Cotabato.<\/p>\n<p>This is after the former chairman has been cleared of 11 counts of electoral sabotage for the alleged discrepancies during the 2007 election in South Cotabato.<\/p>\n<p>The complainants insisted that the viotes were manipulated to favor the candidiates running under the administration ticket of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.<\/p>\n<p>Abalos\u2019 camp would be presenting their evidence in the next hearing, according to Felda Domingo, spokesperson of the Pasay Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 112.<\/p>\n<p>This is following the presentation of the prosecution\u2019s witnesses including Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III, who claimed to have lost some 45,000 votes in favor of TU senatorial candidate Miguel Zubiri.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel testified on Aug. 8, as part of the prosecution\u2019s presentation of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Abalos was implicated in the case by former North Cotabato election officer Yogie Martirizar who became a state witness in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Former North Cotabato election officer Yogie Martirizar, who had turned state witness, implicated Abalos in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. is facing two more complaints involving the alleged cheating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[8173,3716,8172],"class_list":["post-28454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-abalos","tag-comelec","tag-voting","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28454","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}