The Commission on Elections committed grave abuse of discretion when it disqualified Smartmatic even before it submitted any bid for the 2025 elections, the Supreme Court said.
“It held that Comelec implemented a discretionary pre-qualification regime antithetical to Government Procurement and Reform Act,” she added. In November, the poll body disqualified Smarmatic from all procurements due to allegations of bribery against former Comelec chairperson Andres Bautista over the contract awarded to Smartmatic for election machines.
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