Comelec bans disclosure of details in suits vs. Marcos Jr. candidacy sans clearance

Information as regards the three petitions pending before the Commission on Elections First Division against the presidential candidacy of former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. may not be made public without clearance. 

“These cases being pendente lite (during litigation), copy and content of the Answers may not be shared with the public without clearance from the First Division," Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said.

"We can, however, provide general info on these cases as soon as they become available,” he added.

Comelec Commissioner Rowena Guanzon, a member of the First Division, last week told lawyers in the petitions against Marcos to stop disclosing details on the three pending cases.

The disqualification cases

• the petition filed by Bonifacio Ilagan Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law (CARMMA) and religious and youth rights advocates,
• the petition filed by Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, and
• the petition filed by Abubakar Mangelen claiming to be the duly-elected chairman of the PFP and that the CONA issued to Marcos Jr. is “unauthorized, defective, invalid and void.”

—NB, GMA News