Comelec defies SC ruling on poll winner

Despite a ruling of the Supreme Court (SC), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will not proclaim the Abang Lingkod party-list, Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said on Thursday.

The poll body had disqualified Abang Lingkod, which had won enough votes to qualify for a seat in the House of Representatives on its second try. But after it lost in its first bid for a party-list seat in 2010, the poll body deemed Abang Lingkod as lacking the necessary track record to run for a seat. In the elections earlier this year, the group won enough votes for a single seat in Congress, but could not take that seat because it had been disqualified by Comelec.