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Comelec: Prospero Pichay’s failed 2022 congressional bid invalid in the first place

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2022 Philippine Elections News

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The Comelec nullifies the candidacy of former lawmaker Prospero Pichay for his 2022 congressional race – one which he lost anyway – saying a past Ombudsman ruling against him already disqualified him from holding public office

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The case that became Pichay’s undoing was released in 2011 by the Ombudsman, which found him guilty of grave misconduct due to misuse of funds when he was chairperson of the Local Water Utilities Administration. The Comelec en banc on Tuesday said that the Ombudsman’s decision was immediately executory regardless of appeals filed, based on the amended Rules of Procedure of the Office of the Ombudsman.

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