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By Tina G. Santos '
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Former Commission on Elec-
tions (Comelec) Chair Sixro Bril-
lantes fr. on Tuesday led the fil.
ing of a petition to formally op-
pose Duterte Youth's latest list
of nominees that still included
the controversial former Nation-
al Youth Commission chair
Ronald Cardema as its first nom-
inee, despite his disqualification.
Cardema's wife, Ducielte
A{trrie, was named as the party
lis.Hroup's second nominee.
,Brillantes, along with lawyer
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Emil Maranon, represented the
petitioners belonging to the
youth sector in asking the poll
body to reject the withdrawal
and the substitution of a new set
of nominees last week by
Duterte Youth, and said that the
proadministration phrty list was
making "a mockery of the law.',
The petitioners were among
those that previously filed a pe-
tition to cancel Cardema's nom-
inatiory which was granted by
the Comelec's First Division.
"We urge the honorable
commission to end this mock-
'the
ery of law, of the party list
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system and even of this com- Cardema's wife was,part of
mission," the petitioners said. Duterte Youth's original set of
"This another wave of 'mer- nominees, who simultaneously
ry-go-rountl' of nominees of withdrew their nominations on
Duterte Youth is not just a clear May tz, a day before the elec-
violation of Republic Act [No.] tions, paving the way for Carde-
794r... but a blatant insult to the ma and other new nomineds to
intelligence of this commission file for last-minute substitution.
and ofttre whole riation, thus,
Along with the Cardemas,
should not be allowed at alt Guillermo Villareal Jr., Krizza
cost," they said. Reyes and Robert Garcia also
In an interview, Brillantes filed for substirution with the
stressed that the group's with- Comelec.
drawal and substitution of
The Comelec is expected to
nominations were made be- tackle the group's refiling of sub-
yond the period allowed by stitute nominees on Wednesday..
Comelec rules. INQ.