Comelec: Pending Marcos-related appeals to be resolved before election day

Bongbong Marcos, presidential candidate and son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, gestures after delivering his speech during a campaign rally inside a gymnasium in Bocaue town, Bulacan province, north of Manila on February 8, 2022.

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MANILA, Philippines — Pending appeals related to the presidential bid of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. will be decided before elections day, Acting Elections Commissioner Socorro Inting said Friday.

In a press conference streamed on Friday, Inting said the appeals have been raffled off to a ponente, or the member-in-charge of the case. “So we’ll just have to await the release of [the resolutions of] these [motions for reconsideration],” she said.

“Well, definitely, these cases, the MRs, have to be decided before the elections” or before May 9, Inting added.

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