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FORMER Caloocan City congressman Edgar “Egay” Erice was disqualified by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from running in the upcoming 2025 national and local elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Erice is planning to run as congressman in the 2nd<\/sup> district of Caloocan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a 13-page resolution promulgated by the 2nd Division on November 26, the Comelec said Erice’s acts of propagating false information across multi-platforms demonstrates his deliberate intent to disrupt elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Raymond Salipot filed the petition to disqualify Erice after the latter submitted his Certificate of Candidacy on October 7, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In his petition, Salipot said Erice used alarmist language to incite public fear, stating in public unverified allegations of bribery and corruptions against Comelec, which according to the petitioner was unfounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Erice has repeatedly called on the Comelec to reuse the decade-old machines supplied by previous poll tech provider Smartmatic, while questioning the credibility of its successor, the Korean-based Miru Systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Erice repeatedly characterized the Philippines as a \u201cguinea pig\u201d in the coming elections, asserting that the automated counting machines and system procured by the Comelec from South Korea-based provider Miru Systems have never been used in any election worldwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The former congressman further claimed that the<\/strong> Comelec\u2019s P18-billion contract with Miru was highly anomalous and the procurement was rigged.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Salipot had previously sought Erice\u2019s disqualification for \u201cdeliberately spreading false and alarming reports\u201d to disrupt the electoral process and cause confusion among voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FORMER Caloocan City congressman Edgar “Egay” Erice was disqualified by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from running in the upcoming 2025 national and local elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10298,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions\/10298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}