Election lawyer Romulo Macalintal on Saturday said the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by the Supreme Court (SC) that stopped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from proclaiming the last batch of winning party-list groups was unfair.

Macalintal said only the Coalition of Associations of Senior Citizens in the Philippines Inc. (Senior Citizens) party-list filed a petition for a TRO, therefore the High Court should not have issued a “blanket” TRO that also affected five more party-list groups.

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