"If you can't be fair and impartial, what will the elections be like?"
Senator Nancy Binay posed this question to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Friday, October 8, as she hit the poll body for supposedly giving administration candidates undue preference as they filed their certificates of candidacy (COCs) for the 2022 elections.
Binay took to Twitter to slam the Comelec for allowing the violation of health protocols by members of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) group led by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi at the Sofitel Harbor Garden tent in Pasay City where the COCs for national positions are submitted.
President Duterte was also at the venue to endorse his party mates' election bid.
"@COMELEC, do you have to give special treatment to the PDP- Cusi wing?" the senator posted.
@COMELEC Do you really have to give special preference to the PDP-Cusi Wing?
Napaka-unfair naman. We followed your rules sa Sofitel Tent, then you accomodated the candidates of PDP and broke your own rules?
If you can't be fair & impartial, then what will #Halalan2022 be like? pic.twitter.com/HAuLr7oxYU
— Senator Nancy Binay (@SenatorBinay) October 8, 2021
"Napaka unfair naman. We followed your rules sa Sofitel tent, then you accommodated the candidates of PDP and broke your own rules? If you can't be fair and impartial, then what will the Halalan 2022 be like?" she further said.
According to Binay's camp, PDP-Laban candidates violated "almost all" of Comelec's protocols in the filiing of COCs, such as, the three-person limit rule, physical distancing, and health clearance requirements, among others.
Binay's father, former vice president Jejomar "Jojo" Binay, filed on Thursday, October 7, his COC for senator under the banner of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).
The former Makati City mayor will join the senatorial slate of Senators Panfilo Lacson and Vicente Sotto III.