Comelec restores Vizcaya gov’s House bid

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) 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.