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OSG to file quo warranto petition vs. Guo before end of July

OSG to file quo warranto petition vs. Guo before end of July

Sherrie Ann Torres,

ABS-CBN News

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Updated Jul 23, 2024 05:59 PM PHT

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Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo testifies at the Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024 as she faces questions on her identity and alleged ties to a raided POGO hub in her town. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/FileBamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo testifies at the Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024 as she faces questions on her identity and alleged ties to a raided POGO hub in her town. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

MANILA (UPDATED/CORRECTED) -- New pieces of evidence against suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo continue to pile up, solidifying the government's would-be case against the embattled local chief executive.

The increase of evidence against Guo has also delayed the Office of the Solicitor General's filing of its quo warranto petition against the suspended official.

With all these developments, the OSG is eyeing to file the quo warranto petition this month, Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said.

"Actually dapat na-file na namin nun pa petition for quo warranto. Kaya lang evidence keeps on  turning up, na lalo magpapatibay to what we already have. Kaya naman ini-incorporate lang namin yung mga new evidence that turned up sa senate inquiry at we are consolidating everything and we are hoping to file the petition for quo warranto before the end of this month," Guevarra told journalists in a news conference Tuesday, on the Memorandum of Agreement signing between the OSG, Commission on Elections, National Amnesty Commission and the Presidential Task Force on Media Security. 

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This early, Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia is also offering its evidence against Guo, specifically the evaluation of the mayor's fingerprints when she filed her Certificate of Candidacy in 2021, and when she voted May of 2022.

"Dadagdagan natin ang evidence na magagamit ng SolGen. At sure ako, yung findings natin makakadagdag sa quo warranto petition na ipa-file ng SolGen," Garcia said.

(We will give additional evidence to the SolGen. And we are sure that our findings will further help the quo warranto petition that the SolGen will file)

On Thursday, Garcia and his team, which include their fingerprint analysts, will be visiting the COMELEC office in Tarlac to personally check the documents surrounding Guo's voting records.

Whatever will be gathered from this visit will be added to the COMELEC's evidence when they file their administrative and criminal case against Guo.

"May fingerprints na andun din, sa EDCVL (Election Day Computerized Voters' List). May signature, may fingerprints, may picture siya dun, pwede namin makita yun. Yung mga yun siguradong makakatulong sa SolGen kung ano man findings ng COMELEC sa bagay na yan," Garcia said.

(Fingerprints are there. There's signature, fingerprints, and pictures that we could see. All these can surely help the SolGen)

And with the President's strong directive to concerned government agencies to ban POGOs, the COMELEC is confident that come election period, the issue of "POGO politics" will no longer be a problem in the country, according to Garcia.

"Ibang politics naman. Narco politics, jueteng politics, ibang politics naman ang ating babantayan. Wala nang POGO politics," Garcia declared.

(No more POGO politics. We have other political concerns. Narco politics, jueteng politics. We will be guarding other politics)

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