MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET) has junked a protest filed against the Kabataan Partylist by the You Against Corruption and Poverty (YACAP) Partylist over the results of the 2019 elections.
In a decision dated March 18, a copy of which was sent to the media on Thursday evening, the HRET said YACAP Partylist “does not have legal standing to file the instant election protest and cannot claim to be entitled to any of the reliefs sought in the protest” as it only ranked 58th in the partylist elections.
Rule 17 of the 2015 HRET Rules states that a protest “can only be filed by the candidates who obtained the second or third hi…
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