MANILA — Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo or Guo Hua Ping is set to be arraigned on Thursday, December 5 in Capas, Tarlac.

Capas, Tarlac Regional Trial Court Branch 66 presiding judge Ronald Haban signed the order dated November 29, 2024 and was released to media by Comelec on Monday, December 2.

The arraignment is set at 8:30 in the morning at Branch 66 on the said date.

The case against Guo stemmed from the material misrepresentation complaint filed by the Commission on Elections in October.

According to Comelec, Guo “willfully and unlawfully” committed material misrepresentation by filing her certificate of candidacy for Bamban mayor for the May 2022 elections “when in truth and in fact, she is a Chinese citizen and a resident of Fujian, China.”

In a Viber message, Comelec chairman George Erwin Garcia said the order from the court is already a small victory.

“It is a victory of sort. But it is still a long way to go,” Garcia told ABS-CBN News.

The Comelec accused Guo of violating Section 74 in relation to Section 262 of the Omnibus Election Code, or Material Misrepresentation.