FromOurArchives: After the May 2022 elections, Degamo was declared by the Comelec as the winner in the Negros Oriental gubernatorial race last October 3, 2022. But five months later, he was shot dead. How was that possible? Read more here:
On October 13, 2021 – around three months before the printing of ballots – Roel Degamo petitioned the Comelec to declare his almost-namesake Ruel Degamo as a nuisance candidate. He alleged that the latter’s surname is not really Degamo but Gaudia, and that the mechanic has never used the name Ruel all his life.
“According to the petitioner, all of these circumstances show that [the surname] Degamo and respondent’s pretended nickname ‘Ruel’ was abused by petitioner’s political rival, through respondent, as to confuse and deceive the true will of the electorate,” the Comelec en banc’s September 1 resolution read.On December 16, the Comelec’s 2nd Division granted Roel’s petition and declared Ruel as a nuisance candidate.
The printing of automated ballots commenced on January 20, 2022, without a Comelec en banc ruling on the case, which meant that Ruel’s name would remain on the ballots. The May 9 elections pushed through with votes for Ruel considered valid.On May 10, Roel asked the Comelec en banc to resolve his case with finality, and allow votes obtained by Ruel to be credited in his favor.
In its resolution dated August 16, the Supreme Court said the TRO request was already moot, but granted his petition for mandamus, which ultimately compelled the Comelec to resolve the long-delayed case within 10 days from its receipt of the High Court order.
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