Poe foe has his own troubles
Rizalito David. SCREENGRAB FROM INQUIRER.net VIDEO
AS HE PUSHES to expel opponents from the presidential race, he himself is fighting to stay on the list.
Rizalito David, a broadcaster who has filed separate pleas to disqualify Sen. Grace Poe and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as candidates, is set to file a petition in the Supreme Court to stop his disqualification from his own presidential bid.
David’s lawyer, Trixie Cruz-Angeles, confirmed yesterday that her client will file a certiorari plea before the high court on Monday, the first work day of the new year, in a bid to undo the Commission on Elections’ order that declared him a nuisance candidate.
“We’re filing a separate petition for certiorari on the declaration of Mr. David as a nuisance candidate,” Angeles said when reached by phone yesterday.
She said the petition would dispute the Comelec’s ruling that David, as a broadcaster, has no capacity to undertake a national campaign.
Article continues after this advertisement“In very general terms, we are attacking the Comelec’s conclusion that if one is a broadcaster, one cannot afford to wage a national campaign and, therefore, is a nusiance candidate,” said Angeles.
While busy with suits against other presidential candidates, David, a defeated senatorial candidate in 2013, has suffered setbacks in his own bid. Tarra Quismundo
