It looked like a lottery draw complete with numbered ping-pong balls jumping inside a tambiolo or raffle drum—except that the prize was not millions of pesos but slots on the ballot for the party-list elections on May 13.
A partylist group disqualified by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from participating in next year’s midterm elections on Friday accused the poll body of arrogating unto itself the power to review a ruling of the Supreme Court.
Two party-list groups representing electricity consumers and 20 others have been dropped from the roster of organizations qualified to take part in the 2013 midterm congressional elections.
Just like Ako Bicol lawmakers who were first among incumbent party-list groups to be axed by the Commission on Elections, disqualified 1-CARE Partylist on Monday said it would also seek the Supreme Court’s intervention in their case.
