Gabriela urges proclamation as winning party-list group for Eleksyon 2025
On Wednesday, members of the women' s organization staged a rally outside the Comelec main office in Intramuros, Manila and to submit consolidated letters of appeal from marginalized sectors including solo parents, LGBTQIA+, and child rights advocates to call for the disqualification of Duterte Youth with finality and for the proclamation of Gabriela.
'We urge you to consider our appeal for genuine representation, especially for marginalized sectors like the vast majority of impoverished women in the country,' Gabriela said in its letter to the poll body.
The group appealed to the Comelec 'to proclaim the most consistent champion of women's and people's rights in Congress- the Gabriela Party-list.'
Gabriela ranked 55th in the recent May polls, garnering 256,609 votes.
Duterte Youth
Meanwhile, the Duterte Youth party-list filed a motion for reconsideration (MR) with the Comelec en banc seeking to reverse the poll body division ruling and to proclaim them as one of the winning party-lists in the recent polls.
In a motion dated June 20, the party-list said the Comelec Second Division 'gravely erred' when it ruled the registration of the Duterte Youth is void ab initio, or void from the beginning, when it failed to comply with the constitutional requirements of publication and hearing of their registration.
'The Party-List System Act, specifically Sec. 5 of RA 7941 orders that the Comelec, not the party-list applicant, to publish the petition for registration in two national newspapers of general circulation and shall resolve the petition within 15 days from the date it was submitted for resolution,' the motion read.
The Comelec Second Division last week cancelled the registration of the Duterte Youth Party-list based on a 2019 petition that sought to nullify its registration after it failed to comply with the constitutional requirement of publication and hearing. However, the decision is not yet final and executory.
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The party-list also argued the group's past action in compliance with the laws, rules, and regulations, 'cannot be translated or construed as a mockery of the electoral processes or to bring it into disrepute' as the petitioners failed to submit evidence to support their claims.
'Despite [the] presence of several factual issues, the petitioners did not present any testimonial evidence and submitted the case for resolution on the basis of what has been marked and for the Comelec to rule only on the basis of facts which were undisputed by the parties,' the motion added. —RF, GMA Integrated News
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