BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – The Commission on
Elections has granted the appeal of Gov. Luisa Cuaresma, restoring her bid for
the province’s lone congressional district seat in the May elections.
The Comelec reversed its earlier resolution
declaring Cuaresma’s House bid as “deemed not filed” for her supposed failure
to log her signature in the poll body’s logbook here when she filed her
certificate of candidacy.
The Comelec concurred with Cua-resma’s motion
for reconsideration calling her lapses as mere “trivial administrative
matters.”
Cuaresma, on her third and final term as
governor, hailed the decision as “triumph for the province” against those few
who wanted “to curtail the right of our people to have more choices in electing
their leaders.”
The resolution eventually paves the way for
Cuaresma’s congressional bid against three-term-seeking Rep. Carlos Padilla of
the Nacionalista Party. The outgoing governor is running under the United
Nationalist Alliance.
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