Comelec halts proclamation of Erwin Tulfo as party-list nominee
MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has suspended the proclamation of former Social Welfare and Development Secretary Erwin Tulfo as ACT-CIS party-list’s nominee next-in-line. In a statement released on Wednesday evening, the poll body said the seven-man panel decided to suspend the proclamation after receiving a petition seeking to disqualify the group’s nominee next-in-line late last month. “In its Regular Meeting today, March 1, 2023, the Commission on Elections en banc resolved to suspend the proclamation of Mr. Erwin P. Tulfo, nominee next-in-line of ACT-CIS Party-List Group in view of the filing of a Petition for Disqualification against him on February 28, 2023,” it said. The petition filed by lawyer Moises Tolentino Jr. seeks Tulfo's disqualification on allegations pertaining to "question of citizenship" and "conviction by final judgment of a crime involving moral turpitude". The petition was docketed by the Clerk of the Commission, was t...