Junking of seniors’ party list registration sought

Election lawyer Romulo Macalintal has urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc to immediately act on a petition of his client, senior citizen Cecilia Lopez, to cancel the registration of the Coalition of Associations of Senior Citizens in the Philippines (CASCP), a duly registered party-list in the May 2016 elections for having two factions, making it impossible to determine the voters’ real intention.

In a statement, Macalintal said Lopez filed a petition last December 16 seeking that she be allowed to intervene in two pending petitions at the poll body where two groups are both claiming to be the rightful CASCP representative.