{"id":68656,"date":"2016-01-11T03:43:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T08:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=68656"},"modified":"2016-01-12T00:32:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T05:32:42","slug":"duterte-camp-hails-comelec-dismissing-one-three-dq-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/11\/duterte-camp-hails-comelec-dismissing-one-three-dq-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte camp hails Comelec dismissing one of three DQ petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5056\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/duterte.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5056\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5056\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/duterte-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/duterte-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/duterte.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The camp of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Monday hailed the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) junking one of the disqualification petitions.<\/p>\n<p>Davao City Rep. Karlo Nograles said they were relieved to know that the Comelec is applying the rule of law correctly, and they hope that the Commissioners will maintain their stand with the other DQ cases still pending in their office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that everyone can keep calm, cool and collected in the remaining months to come going towards Election Day, confident that Comelec as an institution will defend democracy and the voice of our people,\u201d Nograles said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The division has junked the petition filed by UP Diliman University Student Council (USC) chair John Paulo delas Nieves after he and his lawyer failed to appear in the preliminary conference on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Nieves, in a 23-page petition, earlier questioned the validity of Duterte&#8217;s substitution for former Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) standard-bearer Martin Di\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner cited the error in the certificate of candidacy of Di\u00f1o which indicates that he is running for mayor of Pasay City, not president.<\/p>\n<p>The Comelec First Division on Tuesday will hear the two remaining petitions against the presidential aspirant,<\/p>\n<p>According to Nograles, \u201cthis is a welcome relief, given the damaging remarks, potshots and mudslinging being hurled against the good Commissioners and against their institution by some quarters in this electoral exercise.\u201d (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The camp of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Monday hailed the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) junking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":5056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-68656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-original","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68656","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=68656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}