In a petition filed by 15 BARMM leaders, the SC was told that the BEC violates not only the Bangsamoro Organic Law but also “the constitutional guarantee on equal protection of the laws and equal access to opportunities for public service.”
“Worse, by providing restrictive qualifications for political parties, the BEC curtailed what should be free and equal opportunity for political parties to seek and obtain parliamentary seats, thereby contradicting the mandate of the Constitution and the Bangsamoro Organic Law,” they said. Named respondents were the Bangsamoro Transition Authority and Ahod Balawag Ebrahim as interim chief minister of the Bangsamoro government.
Under the BEC, the Bangsamoro parliament must be composed of 80 members -- 50 percent of them party representatives, 40 percent district representatives and 10 percent sectoral representatives. On the use of public funds, the petitioners said that Section 262 of the Omnibus Election Code “expressly prohibits the use of public funds for any election campaign or partisan political activity.”
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