An official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said petitions for registration of some party-list groups were dismissed due to several defects.
"The usual defects are: Lacking in consent of all members, no Manifestation of Intent to Participate in the 2022 elections, etc," Comelec Commissioner Rowena Guanzon said on Twitter on Wednesday, Dec. 15.
She cited the case of Nurses United and Ang Ladlad as examples.
"I feel for Nurses United. But their petition was dismissed because of several defects. The same for Ang Ladlad," said Guanzon.
She also explained why they denied the petition of 1 TESDA.
"We denied 1 TESDA because it used a name of a government agency, will confuse voters, give unfair advantage. TESDA, in fact, sent its opposition and its lawyer," said Guanzon.
On Tuesday, the Comelec already conducted the raffle to determine the order of listing of party-list groups on the ballot.
A total of 166 party-list groups were included in the raffle.
Meanwhile, concerned citizens and civil society organizations on Wednesday, Dec. 15, submitted to the Comelec) a Statement of Support to the petition seeking to cancel the certificate of candidacy (COC) of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. in the May 2022 polls.
Led by the Alliance of Women for Action Towards Reform (AWARE), the groups also submitted together with the statement more than 15,000 signatures supporting the petition filed by Fr. Christian Buenafe and other civil society leaders.
The signatures were collected through change.org.
"In behalf of our respective civil society organizations, we respectfully submit the attached Statement of Support for the Petition for the Cancellation or Denial of Due Course of the Certificate of Candidacy of Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr.," said the groups.
"We call on the Commission to exercise its Constitutional mandate and favorably resolve the Petition," they added.