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                    [Title] => Disqualification case vs Isabela mayor junked
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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has upheld the certificate of candidacy (COC) of a re-electionist mayor of an Isabela town, whose disqualification was sought by his rival, alleging that he has served three consecutive terms.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 422860 [Title] => Isabela mayor's barangay affairs aide shot dead [Summary] =>

ILAGAN, Isabela – A senior aide of a mayor of a southwestern town here was shot dead while on his way home from work last Tuesday night, police said.

[DatePublished] => 2008-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 395814 [Title] => Town asks: Who won in 2004 polls? [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela – Three weeks before the midterm elections, residents in this province’s southwestern town still do not know who won the mayoral race in 2004.

Two of that year’s mayoral candidates are now holding office at the municipal building.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 395190 [Title] => Isabela town’s real mayor finally known [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela – After nearly years of legal battle and with less than a month before the midterm elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) finally proclaimed the real winner in this town’s 2004 mayoral race.

Raymond Espidol of the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats is expected to formally assume the mayoralty post here today after a Comelec-sanctioned municipal board of canvassers (MBOC) composed of Manila-based lawyers declared him the duly elected mayor of this town over the incumbent, Wilfredo Tabag.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 394720 [Title] => NEW RE-CANVASSING ORDERED Comelec still determining real winner in 2004 mayoral race in Isabela town [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela – With barely less than a month before the midterm elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) still has to determine the real winner in this town’s 2004 mayoral race.

In a 15-page en banc order dated April 12, the Comelec created a new municipal board of canvassers composed of Manila-based lawyers that would conduct the re-canvassing of 41 election returns in the 2004 mayoral race at the poll body’s main office in Intramuros, Manila tomorrow.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 386993 [Title] => Comelec annuls Isabela mayor’s 2004 poll victory [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has nullified the proclamation of Mayor Wilfredo Tabag of this province’s southwestern town as the winning candidate in the 2004 polls.

The poll body’s first division also formed a new set of municipal board of canvassers (MBOC) to conduct a recount of the votes here as contained in the motion of Raymond Espidol, who was proclaimed mayor of this town but ousted in July last year after losing in a "fraud-marred" recount conducted by the old MBOC.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 347972 [Title] => Newly proclaimed Isabela mayor assumes post [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela — Amid threats of another election protest, the newly proclaimed winning mayoral candidate in the 2004 elections here formally assumed the town’s highest post yesterday.

Wilfredo Tabag, of the Partido ng Demokratiking Pilipino Laban, formally assumed the mayoralty post following his proclamation last Friday as the winning candidate in the three-way mayoralty race in the 2004 elections.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 348040 [Title] => Bagong halal na mayor ng Isabela, nanungkulan na [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela – Makalipas ang dalawang taong paghihintay simula noong 2004 eleksyon, pormal nang nanungkulan kahapon (July 17) ang bagong halal na alkalde ng bayan ng Ramon makaraang iproklama ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) batay sa isinagawang recount sa mga balota.

Si Wilfredo Tabag ng Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban (PDP-Laban) na iprinoklama ng Comelec noong Biyernes (July 14) ay pormal nang umupo kahapon bilang bagong mayor at kinilalang panalo noong nakalipas na halalan laban sa kanyang katunggali na si Mayor Raymond Espidol.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Probinsiya [SectionUrl] => probinsiya [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346876 [Title] => Comelec starts re-canvassing of votes in Isabela town [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela — With less than a year to go before next year’s midterm elections, this town’s mayoral row is far from over.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) started the other day the re-canvassing of election returns in the May 2004 elections here to determine the real winner of the mayoral post.

The provincial election registrar’s move was in compliance with an earlier order of the Supreme Court (SC), which upheld the Comelec en banc’s ruling last year voiding the proclamation of Raymond Espidol as the duly elected mayor.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322876 [Title] => SC finally unseats Isabela town mayor [Summary] => RAMON, Isabela — The Supreme Court (SC) finally junked the motion filed by the lawyers of this town’s mayor seeking to overturn last year’s decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) voiding his proclamation in the 2004 elections.

The SC decision dated Feb. 8 paved the way for Vice Mayor Mercy Vizcarra to finally take over the reins of the municipal leadership from Raymond Espidol yesterday, finally ending almost six months of political tension here.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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