SC issues TRO in Jalosjos daughter’s poll case
By Benjamin B. Pulta
09/09/2010
Another restraining order has been handed down by the Supreme Court (SC) in a local government election dispute this time stopping the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from disqualifying the daughter of former Rep. Romeo Jalosjos in the mayoral election in Baliangao, Misamis Occidental last May.
Svetlana Jalosjos won against Agne Yap Sr. by six votes in the May 10 mayoralty race. However in July, the Comelec ruled she failed to prove that she stayed long enough in Baliangao as a resident to be qualified to run for mayor.
The Local Government Code of the Philippines provides that a candidate running for an elective post must be a resident of the municipality or province where he or she is running, for at least a year.
According to the poll body, the young Jalosjos failed to establish her residency, which would allow her to run and sit as mayor of the said town.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100909nat6.html
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