An administrative remedy to a constitutional problem

Why did the Commission on Elections en banc “accept” or at least “receive” Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s belated substitute candidacy, despite a formal legal opposition to it, while it summarily rejected as “nuisance candidates” so many others, against whom there was no disqualification complaint, just because they had no known organization, political base, or money? What happened to the equal protection of the laws? Why does Duterte appear so favored, and the others so discriminated against?

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