A petition seeking the disqualification of Akbayan Rep. Arlene Javellana Bag-ao from her post has been filed before Congress after she allegedly shed her affiliation with the party-list group and shifted loyalty with the ruling Liberal Party in her bid to run for congressman in the lone district of Dinagat Islands in Mindanao.
Leyte Representative Lucy Marie Torres Gomez failed to win the Supreme Court’s support in her bid to stop the election protest against her 2010 victory.
Chief Justice Renato Corona received close to P5 million in allowances while serving in the Senate and House electoral tribunals, two defense witnesses said Wednesday.
The House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET) last week upheld the election in 2010 of Eufranio Eriguel as the duly elected representative of the second district of La Union.
