The judge who in one month convicted a Canadian drug trafficker topped the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) shortlist for a vacancy in the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan.

In a voting conducted by the JBC, headed by acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio, Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Gina Bibat-Palamos got six votes from the seven members of the council.

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