Duterte Youth asks SC to review, block and void Guanzon substitution as party-list rep

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Speaker Lord Allan Velasco swears in Ducielle Cardema as a member of the House on Tuesday, October 13.

(Screengrab from Congress' Facebook page)

 

MANILA, Philippines — The Duterte Youth party-list, its House representative, and her husband, are asking the Supreme Court to review the Commission on Elections' decision to allow former poll commissioner Rowena Guanzon to substitute as nominee for a party-list for PWDs, saying the substitution happened past deadline.

 

Guanzon, in 2019, opposed a similar substitution within the Duterte Youth, denying then-National Youth Commission Chairperson Ronald Cardema a seat at the House. Ronald and Rep. Ducielle Marie Cardema mentioned the incident in their petition, saying they had been "harassed repeatedly by [Guanzon] in the media and social media on the issue of party-list substitution."

 

The Cardemas filed an Urgent Petition for Certiorari asking the court to issue an order to stop COMELEC from issuing Guanzon a Certificate of Proclamation and for the House of Representatives to keep Guanzon and any other subsitutes for the P3PWD (Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons With Disabilities) party-list from sitting as a member until the plea is resolved.

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/06/21/2189940/duterte-youth-asks-sc-review-block-and-void-guanzon-substitution-party-list-rep

 

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