{"id":33074,"date":"2014-11-26T09:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=33074"},"modified":"2014-11-27T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T05:04:57","slug":"sc-rules-ousted-of-laguna-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/26\/sc-rules-ousted-of-laguna-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"SC rules ousted of Laguna governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12640\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ER-Ejercito.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12640\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ER-Ejercito-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ER Ejercito (Photo from the Facebook page of ER Ejercito)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ER-Ejercito-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ER-Ejercito-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ER-Ejercito.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ER Ejercito (Photo from the Facebook page of ER Ejercito)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The disqualification of Emilio Ramon \u201cER\u201d Ejercito as governor of Laguna province was upheld by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, affirming the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to remove him from office because of overspending.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec en banc\u2019s resolution dated May 2014, affirming the resolution of the Comelec First Division to grant Ejercito\u2019s disqualification was upheld by the high court through a unanimous vote.<\/p>\n<p>The court denied Ejercito\u2019s certiorari petition which was filed days after the Comelec resolution was released, according to Supreme Court spokesman Theodore Te.<\/p>\n<p>While Ejercito insisted that there was grave abuse of discretion committed by the Comelec on its order, the court rejected Ejercito\u2019s claims via a 12-0 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Te, however said that Ejercito may still appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the complete details of the court\u2019s decision is yet to be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The disqualification of Emilio Ramon \u201cER\u201d Ejercito as governor of Laguna province was upheld by the Supreme Court &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33074","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=33074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}