Mikey House seat challenged in SC; Reyes allowed to sit as party-list rep
07/23/2010 Party-list group Akbayan yesterday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to stop former Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo from sitting as a member of the House of Representatives for the party-list group Ang Galing Pinoy (AGP) which claims to represent security guards. Akbayan Rep. Walden Belo and former Akbayan Rep. Loretta Ann Rosales, in a motion, said the son of former President Gloria Arroyo should be declared ineligible to become a member of the House due to his blatant failure to comply with the Commision on Elections (Comelec) requirements for party-list groups. Mikey served two terms as Pampanga’s second district representative before giving way to his mother, who ran and won for the same congressional post. Akbayan stressed that Mikey failed to comply with Section 6 of Comelec Resolution 8807 requiring party-list groups to submit documentary evidence proving that their nominees “truly belong to the marginalized and underrepresented sectors.” “Petitioners respectfully submit that if this Honorable Court fails to act with dispatch in the case at bar, it will result in the unfortunate situation wherein an individual becomes a member of the House of Representatives, despite not having complied with the Rules of Procedure of the Commission on Elections,” the petitioners said.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100723hed6.html |
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