The real winner in the 2010 mayoralty race in Imus, Cavite, will be known only after the May elections, rendering the see-saw battle moot and academic in favor of incumbent Mayor Emmanuel Maliksi, Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. said on Friday.
Tension remained high in Imus City as two officials insisted on their right to be the mayor.
Now that it’s his Liberal Party ally Emmanuel Maliksi who is refusing to vacate the Imus mayoral seat despite a court order, what can President Aquino say about it?
The elections will be held in two months, but rival factions in Imus City in Cavite are still warring over who’s the rightful mayor since the election of 2010.
A 19-year-old was shot dead by a security guard while trying to break up a brawl between two groups of men in a subdivision in Imus City, Cavite, early on Friday.
President Aquino on Thursday warned against “riders” and “pretenders” who turn up in yellow shirts but don’t share the administration’s drive for good governance, at a gathering of Liberal Party candidates in Imus, Cavite.
Supporters of the mayor of Imus, Cavite, who had been ordered removed from office by a local court, are planning to mount rallies to press the Commission on Elections (Comelec)to enforce a recent decision declaring the unseated mayor winner in the 2010 elections and reinstating him.
Supporters belonging to rival parties rallied behind their leaders as the legal battle for the mayoral seat of Imus in Cavite province continued.
The question of who is mayor of Imus, Cavite, continues to hang in the air after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) issued an order reversing a court order that unseated Homer Saquilayan and installed Emmanuel Maliksi as the town mayor.
Newly installed Mayor Manny Maliksi of Imus, Cavite told Radyo Inquirer 990AM Saturday that he would order the auditing of the municipality to ensure that there were no anomalies or irrregularities were committed.
The municipal hall was back to normal Thursday with a new mayor in office after unseated Mayor Homer Saquilayan conceded to rival Emmanuel Maliksi of President Benigno Aquino’s Liberal Party.
The unseated mayor of Imus town in Cavite, Homer Saquilayan, has refused to relinquish his post amid conflicting interpretations of a ruling issued Thursday by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
IMUS, Cavite—Tension that could lead to bloodshed is gripping this town after a court recently ordered the incumbent mayor unseated and his closest rival in the 2010 elections installed in a ruling that also cast doubt on the accuracy of results of the country’s first fully automated elections that year. Supporters of Mayor Homer Saquilayan [...]
