COMELEC, may fact-finding committee kaugnay sa kaso ni suspended Mayor Guo

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00:00The Fact-Finding Committee is now forming the Law Department of the Commission on Elections

00:07after their investigation involving Suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo

00:15and Attorney John Rex Lopianco, the spokesman of COMELEC.

00:19Co-guided by their technical examination of the fingerprints and handwritings in their records of Guo,

00:29they hope that a recommendation will be issued by their Law Department to submit to the Commission on Bank

00:37where they will see if the collected information is enough to see if there is a violation of the law

00:45and if there is a violation of the law.

00:48If there is a violation, the Commission will file a Motu Propio Complaint for Material Misrepresentation

00:57which is an election offense and criminal case that will be followed by a preliminary investigation

01:03where the respondent will be given a chance to explain the due process.

01:10If there is a probable cause for a violation of the law, the next step is to file criminal information to the Regional Trial Court.

01:20You may ask, why to the RTC?

01:23First of all, that is the basis of the law according to the Omnibus Election Code.

01:26Second, because an election offense involves imprisonment for up to six years,

01:31there is a violation of the right to vote,

01:33there is a perpetual disqualification to hold public office,

01:37the court must decide on this.