An election lawyer who is rumored to replace retiring Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. has refused the position in favor of a run for the Senate in the 2016 polls.

But Brillantes on Tuesday said he was not endorsing election lawyer Romulo Macalintal as his would-be successor.

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