Comelec rejects Duterte Youth bid to block Guanzon party-list substitution

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Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said President Rodrigo Duterte would not intervene in former National Youth Commission Chairperson Ronald Cardema's (L) issues against Comelec Commissioner Rowena Guanzon (R).

Composite photo from The STAR / Boy Santos and file photo

 

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections en banc denied Thursday the bid of party-list group Duterte Youth to block the substitution of nominees of P3PWD party-list, which include former poll commissioner Rowena Guanzon.

 

Among the reasons for the poll body's junked of the right-wing party-list’s plea against P3PWD’s swapping of nominees is that it had allowed in 2019 the withdrawals and substitutions of Duterte Youth nominees, which led to the proclamation of Ducielle Cardema as its representative in the lower chamber.

 

Guanzon, as poll commissioner, opposed moves that would have led to the proclamation of Cardema’s husband, then-National Youth Commission chairperson Ronald Cardema, as Duterte Youth’s first nominee. He was later disqualified for being too old to represent the youth sector.

 

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