Solicitor General launches probe into Bamban Mayor Alice Guo

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MANILA, Philippines – The Office of the Solicitor General has launched a probe and created a team to investigate Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra told Rappler on Thursday, May 16, that they formed the investigating team “to determine if there is good reason to believe that the subject is unlawfully holding or exercising public office.”

Guevarra said they are gathering relevant information from other agencies such as the Department of the Interior and Local Government , Department of Education, Commission on Elections, Bureau of Immigration, and the Philippine Statistics Authority. “Possibly a petition for quo warranto, if the established facts will support it. Only the OSG, as counsel for the state, may commence such a proceeding,” Guevarra added.petition against public officers suspected of usurping their office, or those who are not qualified for office in the first place. A quo warranto petition can remove officials, like the one used toOpposition Senator Risa Hontiveros has raised the question of whether Guo is an “asset” planted by China to infiltrate local politics.

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