{"id":67607,"date":"2015-12-18T04:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67607"},"modified":"2015-12-18T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:27:07","slug":"comelec-accepts-dutertes-coc-disqualification-case-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/18\/comelec-accepts-dutertes-coc-disqualification-case-still-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec accepts Duterte\u2019s CoC, disqualification case still on"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Davao mayor Rodrigo Duterte files Certificate of Candidacy for president before the Commission on Elections in December 9.
(Photo from Duterte’s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u2014The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has accepted on Thursday the Certificate of Candidacy (CoC) of Davao mayor Rodrigo Duterte. However, the poll body stressed that its acceptance of Duterte\u2019s COC is only a \u201cministerial function of the commission\u201d and that disqualification cases against Duterte will still be heard by the poll body.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter deliberation (Wednesday) afternoon, the commission, voting 6 to 1, resolved to acknowledge and accept the certificate of candidacy (COC) for president of Rodrigo Duterte, being a ministerial function of the commission,\u201d Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista was quoted as saying in a Philippine Star report.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what this means is that he is now in our list of candidates. So that was an administrative decision that the Comelec en banc made. But again I would like to emphasize this is without prejudice to any disqualification cases that had been filed or may have been filed against him,\u201d he added, referring to the disqualification case filed by broadcaster Ruben Castor against Duterte.<\/p>\n

Six out of seven members of the commission ruled in Duterte\u2019s favor. They were: Commissioners Sheriff Abas, Andres Bautista, Luie Tito Guia, Arthur Lim, Christian Robert Lim and Al Parre\u00f1o.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Rowena Guanzon voted no due to the pending disqualification case against Duterte.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a pending case, Castor versus Duterte (15-194 DC), wherein the petitioner alleges that Duterte\u2019s COC is void because it contains untruthful facts or misrepresentation. There is also the issue regarding his notarized documents. The truth or falsity of which must be determined before his COC is accepted,\u201d she said in the same report.<\/p>\n

Duterte\u2019s running mate, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, hoped that Comelec will give a fair ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that the Comelec First Division will also be fair as it settles the disqualification issue against Mayor Duterte. This is a simple open and shut case and we are clearly on the side of the law and jurisprudence,\u201d he was quoted as saying in an Inquirer.net report.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Comelec assured objectivity in trying the disqualification case against Duterte.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo special treatment for anyone. We try to objectively assess each and every case,\u201d Bautista said in the same report.<\/p>\n

Following the acceptance of his CoC, Duterte has promised to \u201cact presidentiable\u201d and ignore another presidential candidate, Secretary Mar Roxas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not reply to his statements anymore. I will just snub him because he did not really graduate from Wharton. Besides, he is desperate to improve his ratings because he is last at number four, he is doing everything to be talked about because he knows he will never be President,\u201d he said in the same report.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will tour the country and explain to the people what I intend to do with the peace process, law and order, the problems on illegal drugs, government reorganization and economic plans to improve the lives of Filipinos,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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