{"id":79735,"date":"2016-08-11T04:03:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T08:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=79735"},"modified":"2016-08-11T04:03:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T08:03:49","slug":"comelec-cannot-disqualify-aspirants-barangay-sk-polls-supposed-link-illegal-drug-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/08\/11\/comelec-cannot-disqualify-aspirants-barangay-sk-polls-supposed-link-illegal-drug-ops\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec cannot disqualify aspirants in Barangay, SK polls for supposed link to illegal drug ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_77517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77517\" style=\"width: 884px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Comelec-Chairman-Andres-Andy-Bautista.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77517\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Comelec-Chairman-Andres-Andy-Bautista.jpg\" alt=\"Comelec Chairman Andy Bautista. (Photo: Comelec Commissioner James Jimenez\/Twitter)\" width=\"884\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Comelec-Chairman-Andres-Andy-Bautista.jpg 884w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Comelec-Chairman-Andres-Andy-Bautista-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Comelec-Chairman-Andres-Andy-Bautista-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comelec Chairman Andy Bautista. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jabjimenez\" target=\"_blank\">Comelec Commissioner James Jimenez\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Commission on Elections (Comelec) cannot disqualify aspirants in the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls for their supposed link to illegal drug operations.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista said Tuesday such accusations are not grounds to exclude those who will file their Certificate of Candidacy (CoC).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If these are merely allegations and accusations, then they are not grounds for disqualification,\u201d Bautista said, noting that for a candidate to be disqualified to run for public office, he or she should have been sentenced by a court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore you can be disqualified, there has to be final conviction and bears perpetual disqualification,\u201d Bautista pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>The filing of CoCs for the Oct. 31 polls will be from October 3 to 5.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, President Rodrigo R. Duterte identified more than 150 individuals for their alleged link to illegal drug operations.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the list were officials of local governments, law enforcement agencies, and the judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Commission on Elections (Comelec) cannot disqualify aspirants in the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls for their supposed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79735","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=79735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}