Vote-buying allegations manufactured, says Jonvic Remulla

Cavite gubernatorial candidate Jonvic Remulla branded as "manufactured" complaints that he was involved in vote-buying as alleged in a disqualification case filed by a voter.

"It's obviously manufactured," Remulla told GMA News Online in a text message.

Remulla said that the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) recently arrested 10 individuals for suspected vote-buying in Bacoor, Cavite, but "failed to prove their case in the inquest." 

"All the people were released because of insufficient evidence.  No charges were filed," he said.

He said an earlier complaint listed two police officers as complainants.  

"When asked what their basis of their operations, they said they were taking action on a complaint.  In other words, they were the complainants and they were acting on their complaint.   It speaks of gross incompetence and harassment,"  Remulla said.

Remulla said his brother, incumbent Governor Jesus Crispin Remulla, also reported to the police that there  was "massive vote buying" going on in Imus, but this was not acted on.

"If we complain, it is disregarded.  If it is the policemen complaining, they act in haste," he said.

The disqualification case was filed by a certain Efepania Sunico, a Cavite voter, who urged the Commission on Elections to remove Remulla's name from the official list of gubernatorial candidates in the province for the upcoming midterm elections.

Her petition alleged that Remulla's staff handed out brown envelopes containing P200 and Remulla campaign t-shirts to the people who attended his political rally in the plaza in Barangay Zapote 5, Bacoor City. —LDF, GMA News