Dismissed Mandaue Metropolis Mayor Jonas Cortes./ File Picture
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Dismissed Mandaue Metropolis Mayor Jonas Cortes has filed a petition on the Supreme Court docket at previous 11 a.m on Wednesday, October 9, to forestall the Fee on Elections from canceling his Certificates of Candidacy (COC).
The petition is for certiorari, prohibition, and injunction with utility for issuance of Momentary Restraining Order and/or writ of preliminary injunction.
Cortes additionally requested an pressing movement for the conduct of a particular raffle.
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Lawyer Jamaal James Calipayan, town administrator, stated that the grounds of Mayor Jonas Cortes was that the Ombudsman’s resolution was not but closing.
“Gibalik-balik gyud ni sa Supreme Court docket nga the folks’s alternative within the elections is of paramount significance. So, we’re additionally invoking that kanang precept,” stated Calipayan.
(The Supreme Court docket has repeatedly stated that the folks’s alternative within the elections is of paramount significance. So, we’re additionally invoking that precept.)
Within the petition, Cortes names Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia and different commissioners as respondents.
That is concerning the Comelec Decision No. 11044-A, the ability to administratively cancel a COC of candidates dismissed by an executory order of the Ombudsman with the accent penalty of perpetual disqualification.
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To forestall the Comelec from canceling Cortes’s COC and prohibiting him from operating for reelection, he must safe a TRO from the Supreme Court docket.
Cortes on Tuesday questioned Comelec decision, saying that it violates the 1987 structure, which the due course of is enshrined in it.
Cortes stated that Comelec decision is unfair and deprive the candidates and voters of the suitable to decide on who they need to lead the federal government.
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