{"id":66246,"date":"2015-12-04T04:42:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T09:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66246"},"modified":"2015-12-04T04:45:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T09:45:31","slug":"comelec-no-pressure-from-poes-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/04\/comelec-no-pressure-from-poes-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec: No pressure from Poe\u2019s rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11998\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png\" alt=\"comelec\" width=\"417\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png 417w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA\u2014None of Sen. Grace Poe\u2019s rivals in the 2016 election pressured Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials to disqualify the senator from running in next year\u2019s election, Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were appointed (to the Comelec), our obligations are to the people. We are grateful to the Filipino people (for this opportunity to serve),\u201d Bautista was quoted as saying in a Philippine Star report. \u201cNo pressure whatsoever,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Poe\u2019s supporters accused the commissioners of the poll body of disqualifying Poe in favor of Liberal Party\u2019s presidential bet, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista and Comelec commissioners Sheriff Abas, Rowena Guanzon, Luie Guia, Arthur Lim, Christian Robert Lim and Al Parre\u00f1o were all appointed by President Benigno Aquino III, who has endorsed his party-mate Mar Roxas for president.<\/p>\n<p>Abas, Arthur Lim and Parre\u00f1o were the member of the Comelec Second Division who disqualified Poe due to her failure to meet the 10-year residency requirement for those running for a position in the executive branch.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the dominance of the Liberal Party in Comelec, George Garcia, Poe\u2019s lawyer is confident that the poll body would eventually rule in Poe\u2019s favor as they file a motion for reconsideration on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the three members of the Second Division will change their minds. We believe that under the leadership of Chairman Bautista, the Comelec en banc will be able to issue a fair and just ruling,\u201d Garcia was quoted as saying in the same report.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia did not see any problem with the fact that the commissioners ruling on Poe\u2019s case are Aquino appointees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir loyalty to the President or the appointing authority ends where their loyalty to this country begins,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014None of Sen. Grace Poe\u2019s rivals in the 2016 election pressured Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials to disqualify the senator &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":11998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-66246","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\/66246","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=66246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}