Rosanna Vergara is
still a candidate for congresswoman in the third congressional district of
Nueva Ecija, her lawyer, former Commission on Elections commissioner Gregorio
Larrazabal, said Monday.
Larrazabal said the
decision of the Cabanatuan Municipal Trial Court (MTC) to remove Vergara’s name
from the list of candidates over her void registration and American citizenship
is not yet final pending a decision on their motion for reconsideration.
Vergara, wife of
Cabanatuan City Mayor Julius Vergara, is running against Nueva Ecija Gov.
Aurelio Umali.
Larrazabal denied that
Vergara’s registration had been deactivated when she became an American citizen
in 1998. Vergara reacquired her Filipino citizenship in 2006 and executed an
affidavit of renunciation of foreign citizenship in 2015.
“They know that
their case before the Comelec (Commission on Elections), which is up for
resolution, has no basis so they filed a harassment case before the MTC,” he
said.
Vergara earlier said
the disqualification case filed against her by Philip Piccio was “nothing more
than personal and political vendetta.”
“I am fully
confident that the law is on my side. I am a natural-born Filipino citizen. I
have been a registered voter in Cabanatuan since 1994… I am more than
qualified,” she said.
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