Marcos Jr., meanwhile, hails the dismissal of the petitions, and hopes he can 'carry on with the campaign without all of these distractions' PHVote WeDecide
MANILA, Philippines – Petitioners of the consolidated case that sought to disqualify ousted dictator’s son Ferdinand Marcos Jr. from the 2022 presidential race decried the decision of a Commission on Elections body to junk their petitions.
All two commissioners in the division found that Marcos Jr. did not commit a crime involving moral turpitude – a ground for disqualification under the election code – when he failed to file his income tax returns in the 1980s.In a statement, party-list group Akbayan, one of the petitioners, called the Comelec’s dismissal order “a major setback for the country’s electoral democracy.”
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