Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla information his certificates of candidacy for reelection. INQUIRER.web/John Eric Mendoza
MANILA, Philippines — Fee on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia mentioned on Thursday that the position of the surname and variety of reelectionist Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla on the poll was primarily based on a court docket order.
The location of Revilla within the poll has been met criticized. Many netizens have been asking why he’s eleventh on the listing of senatorial candidates and utilizing “Bong Revilla” as his surname.
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“Could RTC (regional trial court docket) resolution po ng 2009 granting his petition to alter [the] identify. OSG (Workplace of the Solicitor Basic) didn’t oppose,” Garcia advised reporters in a Viber message.
(There was an RTC resolution in 2009 granting his petition to alter his identify. OSG didn’t oppose.)
Revilla’s certificates of candidacy on the Comelec web site exhibits that his registered final identify is “Bong Revilla” with “Ramon, Jr.” as his first identify and “Bautista” as his center identify.
In 2010, Comelec’s 2nd division allowed Revilla to make use of “Bong Revilla” as his registered surname for the senatorial race after junking a disqualification case filed in opposition to him for misrepresentation through the use of the identical surname.
Revilla, who was beforehand detained and acquitted over alleged involvement within the P10-billion pork barrel rip-off that was uncovered in 2013, ranked eleventh within the 2019 senatorial race.
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