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(Press Release From Marcos Jr.'s Camp) "Bongbong Marcos Is Qualified To Run For President"

VERA Files received this press release from Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s camp on Nov. 29, 2021 via email

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(Press Release From Marcos Jr.'s Camp) "Bongbong Marcos Is Qualified To Run For President"

VERA Files received this press release from Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s camp on Nov. 29, 2021 via email

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29 November 2021

Refer to:
Maria Pedroche
(+63 961 630 7404)

BBM IS QUALIFIED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT

FORMER Senator Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, Jr. is qualified to run for


president in the upcoming 2022 elections.

This was contained in a five-page answer to the summons issued by the


Commission on Elections in connection with the petition seeking to cancel
Marcos’ Certificate of Candidacy.

Marcos, through lawyer Estelito Mendoza, sought that the petition be outrightly
dismissed and that the same be heard by face-to-face argument instead of a
virtual or video conference.

"Wherefore, it is respectfully prayed that the petition be dismissed. On the


matter of hearing the petition, considering that the petition refers to the highest
elective position in government and calls for the participation of the people in
general, [it is respectfully prayed] that the petition be heard by face-to-face
argument instead of a virtual or video conference," Marcos’ plea read.

The case stemmed from the petition to cancel Marcos' CoC lodged by Fr.
Christian Buenafe and several others, claiming that the former senator cannot
run for public office as he was convicted by a Quezon City court for his multiple
failure to file his income tax return (ITR) from 1982 to 1985.

They argued that his conviction perpetually disqualified him from seeking any
public office as the same involves moral turpitude.

But Marcos' camp, thru Mendoza, countered this by saying that the petition
will show that it is "bereft of any specific allegation of a material representation
required under Section 74 of the Omnibus Election Code."

"It is relevant and the commission can take judicial notice, that respondent had
previously been elected to several elective positions in government
specifically inter alia provincial governor of Ilocos Norte, member of the House
of Representatives, and member of the Philippine Senate," Mendoza pointed
out.

Taking into account the qualifications of the various elective positions he has
been elected to and occupied as enumerated, he said, "it is of judicial notice
that the respondent [Marcos] has all the qualifications of a President under
Section 2, Article VII of the Constitution and consequently there can be no
violation of Section 78 in relation of Section 74 of the Omnibus Election Code
upon which a petition such as the one now before the commission."

On the same basis alone, according to the lawyer, the petition merits outright
dismissal.

Mendoza also stressed that Marcos did not commit a crime involving moral
turpitude.

"[What] is clear and certainly beyond dispute is that the [Court of Appeals] CA
decision does not, and no inference can be made from its decision that
[Marcos], BBM in this case, has been found by the CA of committing a crime
involving moral turpitude," he added.

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