The Supreme Court grants the petition seeking to declare null and void the party-list substitution of former Commission on Elections commissioner Rowena Guanzon in 2022.
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00:00The Supreme Court grants the petition seeking to declare null and void the party-list substitution
00:06of former Commission on Elections Commissioner Rowena Guanzon in 2022.
00:10In a decision, the SC granted a petition filed by Duterte Youth Partylist, led by its chairperson
00:15Ronald Gardema and former representative Dichelle Cardema.
00:19The Duterte Youth argued in its petition that the substitutions violated a COMELEC resolution
00:24because it was made beyond the deadline set by the election body.
00:28It added that the substitution violated the laws because Guanzon was part of the COMELEC
00:32then.
00:33The SC said the COMELEC committed grave abuse of discretion when it approved P3PWD's submission
00:39of an entirely new list of nominees in June 2022, or a month after the polls.
00:44Guanzon was listed as the party-list's first nominee.