{"id":63386,"date":"2015-10-21T05:44:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T10:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63386"},"modified":"2015-10-21T05:44:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T10:44:23","slug":"comelec-files-disqualification-case-to-nuisance-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/21\/comelec-files-disqualification-case-to-nuisance-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec, files disqualification case to nuisance candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will file petitions to more than a hundred people who filed their certificates of candidacy (COCs) for president, vice-president, and senators and declaring them as nuisance candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista said at a press briefing that the poll body has until today to file the petition to the poll\u2019s Law Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">132 filed their COCs for presidential slate, 19 for vice president, and 172 for senators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bautista said that it\u2019s Comelec\u2019s \u201cministerial\u201d duty to receive COCs and screen their qualifications before declaring official candidates for the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Comelec can file motu propio cases to a nuisance candidate if they \u201cput the election process in mockery or disrepute\u2026 cause confusion among the voters by the similarity of the names of the registered candidates, or who by other acts or circumstances clearly demonstrated to have no bona fide intention to run for public office.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bautista assured the that the Comelec will give opportunity for the concerned candidates to be heard, and the COCs will also undergo due process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will file petitions to more than a hundred people who filed their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":63253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-63386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63386","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=63386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}