Comelec to hear Martinez plea for new canvass board
The Comelec central office in
Comelec clerk of court Delon Richel Ramon Urot, in a notice of hearing, informed the camps of
Tining filed the petition at the Comelec last Monday contending that the proceedings conducted by the present Fourth Board of Canvassers for Bogo, led by its chairman Eddie Aba, was illegal.
On Friday last week,
These returns are still sitting idly at the Philippine International Convention Center where it have been kept after these were brought to
The Comelec’s second division, headed by Commissioner Florentino Tuazon Jr, last May 28 ordered
Tining’s father, Bogo mayor-elect Celestino “Junie” Martinez Jr, commented on DyAB radio yesterday about the issue: “Kahibulongan kaayo kay way written order (for
Junie insisted that the transfer of the ERs to
Salimbangon however asked the Comelec to deny the petition of Tining Martinez “for utter lack of merit,” and for the technical examination of the 15 ERs to resolve finally the question of “authenticity, genuineness and regularity” of these contested documents.
It was Salimbangon who asked the 3rd Special Board of Canvassers for Bogo to defer the canvassing of 15 returns alleging that these were spurious.
Salimbangon, in his 9-page motion to comment and opposition-in-intervention against the
During the canvassing, the duty of the board is ministerial, he said, and for its quasi-judicial duties includes the determination of the authenticity and regularity of contested ERs.
Meanwhile, the
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Junie said that when the canvassing of the Bogo ERs is done, his son Tining would come out the winner, citing that these contested ERs are from barangays Marangub, Udlot, and Nailon, which are unquestionably the turfs of the Martinezes.
Without these ERs and based on the last Comelec canvassing, Salimbangon leads Tining by over a thousand votes. — Gregg M. Rubio and Gerome M. Dalipe/RAE
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