The House plenary (Speaker’s office) With 193 "yes" votes, the House of Representatives gave final approval on Monday night, Feb. 3 to the measure that imposes a hefty P500,000 fine on so-called "nuisance candidates" during election...
The House plenary hall (Contributed photo) The House of Representatives has passed on second reading a measure that imposes a hefty P500,000 fine on so-called "nuisance candidates" during election season. Given penultimate approval...
CEBU CITY – A mayoral candidate from an influential political family in Mandaue City has been disqualified from next year’s elections. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc upheld a previous decision declaring Zoilo Cortes a nuisance candidate. Cortes filed his Certificate of Candidacy...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The Commission on Elections Second Division recently granted a petition declaring Adam Yap as a nuisance candidate due to his lack of genuine intent to actively engage in the election process as Benguet congressional candidate. ADAM Yap Rep. Eric Go Yap, who filed the...
(Comelec Facebook) The Commission on Elections (Comelec) finds itself in a tight spot when it comes to which election candidates should be declared as "nuisance". This, after the Supreme Court (SC) ruled that the unpopularity of a...
For Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos, nuisance candidates are "a bane to any electoral system" and must be stopped from mocking the elections. Marcos penned and filed House Bill (HB) No.8415, which futher details his low opinion on nuisance poll bets. The measure is titled "An Act...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is pushing for the imposition of monetary penalty or jail time on anyone found to be a nuisance candidate. Comelec Chairman George Garcia said that they made this proposal to the members of the Senate on Monday, April 17. “Ang pino-propose natin, sana ‘pag...
There ought to be a law setting a timetable for the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to decide whether or not a certain poll bet is indeed a "nuisance candidate". (Zanorte News Flash Facebook) Thus, said congressman-elect Romeo Jalosjos Jr. of Zamboanga del Norte's first district, who, despite his...
There is great confusion and frustration right now in the first district of Zamboanga del Norte due to the absence of a duly-elected congressman over seven months after the May polls were held. (PPAB) The supposed winner of the congressional seat race, Rep. Romeo Jalosjos Jr., has been removed from...
The camp of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Friday, Jan. 7, commended the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for its decision to declare two other individuals with the same surname who filed a certificate for candidate for presidency just nuisance candidates. Lawyer Vic...
More than half of the 97 aspirants for president might be removed for being nuisance, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday. Comelec/MB "We had 97 filers for president and it looks like more than half of that might be removed as nuisance," Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez said in a...
Kontra Daya has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to declare placeholders as nuisance candidates. Kontra Daya FB The poll watchdog group issued the call as it denounced certain candidates' mockery of election rules, particularly the withdrawal and substitution for President and Vice...
