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Senate committee chairmen named
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NON-FILING PUTS LENI, LP IN PERIL
Winning bets may not assume posts, Comelec warns By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan and Macon Ramos-Araneta
VICE President Leni Robredo may not be able to discharge her duties because her political organization, the Liberal Party, failed to file its mandatory statement of contributions and expenditures (SOCE), an official of the Commission on Elections said Thursday.
“It is in the law that if the political party was not able to file the SOCE, their candidates that won cannot assume their posts,” said Comelec spokesman James Jimenez. “That is what the law says right now. As you can imagine, that might have a far reaching consequences.” The poll spokesman said the LP is answerable to Robredo and
other winning candidates. “If you are looking at it from the point of view of someone who ran for mayor, for example, the mayor who filed his SOCE is not at fault if the party failed to file its own SOCE. The party will have to be answerable to their candidates,” Jimenez said. On the last day of SOCE submission, presidential candidate
Manuel Roxas II failed to submit his campaign expenditures citing “voluminous number of receipts that have to be scanned and attached to the document.” His election lawyer, Romulo Macalintal, maintained that there was no violation of the law if his client failed to file his SOCE. “There’s no problem. It was just Next page
Making the deadline. Commission on Elections personnel check the lists of candidates who submitted their statements of contributions and expenditures (SOCE) late Wednesday. DANNY PATA
Govt may approve of Sison’s delisting
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Lina in hot water over Harbour trade deal national trade, a Customs official said Thursday. WITH less than a month before the On June 2, 2016, Lina issued CusDuterte administration takes over, toms Memorandum Order 12-2016 Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina ordering the bureau to assume jurisusurped the authority of the Philip- diction over MNHPI to operate as an pine Ports Authority by entering into a authorized Customs facility or ACF midnight deal to allow Manila North and permitting the company to enHarbour Port Inc. to engage in inter- gage in international trade when it has
By Christine F. Herrera
an existing exclusive contract with the PPA only to engage in domestic trade, the source said. Lina invoked Republic Act 10668, allowing foreign vessels to transport and co-load foreign cargoes for domestic transshipment and RA 10863 or the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act Next page