{"id":65593,"date":"2015-11-25T05:19:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65593"},"modified":"2015-11-25T05:29:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T11:29:25","slug":"lawyers-differ-on-whether-duterte-could-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/25\/lawyers-differ-on-whether-duterte-could-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers differ on whether Duterte could run"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47874\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image47.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47874\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image47.jpg\" alt=\"Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (PNA photo)\" width=\"269\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image47.jpg 269w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image47-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sixto Brillantes, former chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and election lawyer Romeo Macalintal gave differing opinions on whether Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte could run for president in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte, who declared on Sunday his bid for presidency will fill for Martin Di\u00f1o as PDP-Laban\u2019s presidential bet. Di\u00f1o withdrew his candidacy for president in October 29, this year. PDP-Laban subsequently named Duterte as their replacement candidate.<\/p>\n<p>According to Brillantes, Duterte could run for president in 2016 under PDP-Laban since Di\u00f1o has withdrawn his candidacy<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe grounds in fielding a substitute are death, disqualification and withdrawal. Di\u00f1o withdrew, so he can be replaced. Why will the party be made to suffer? They nominated one candidate and he withdrew, so why can\u2019t the party replace him?\u201d Brillantes was quoted as saying in a Philippine Star report.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, Macalintal said that there may be legal impediments if Duterte will run for president under PDP-Laban. Macalintal noted that DI\u00f1o, in his Certificate of Candidacy filed before the Comelec, indicated that he was running for mayor of Pasay City instead of president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the basis of the substitution of Duterte is the COC of Di\u00f1o, from what I know, there may be some legal impediments. One is because he filed to run for Pasay City mayor, not for president,\u201d Macalintal said in the same report.<\/p>\n<p>Macalintal noted that in case Comelec declares Di\u00f1o as nuisance candidate, it is as if Di\u00f1o did not file certificate of candidacy at all.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec officials have not yet given statement on whether Duterte could substitute Di\u00f1o.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixto Brillantes, former chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and election lawyer Romeo Macalintal gave differing opinions on whether &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":47874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-65593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-katherine-padilla","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65593","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=65593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}