The SC decision stemmed from the 2022 national and local elections results when Uy ran against Romeo Jalosjos, Frederico Jalosjos, and Richard Amazon.Uy initially won with 69,591 votes, followed by Romeo Jaloslos with 69,109. Frederico Jalosjos and Amazon, on the other hand, garnered only 5,424 and 288 votes, respectively.
Romeo Jalosjos subsequently filed a motion to suspend the proclamation of Uy, asserting that the votes garnered by the nuisance candidate must be credited to him. Uy, however, filed a petition and argued before the SC that the PBOC has the ministerial duty to proclaim the candidate with the highest vote, while Frederico Jalosjos also filed a separate petition before the SC after his motion for reconsideration was denied by the Comelec due to technicality.In its decision, the Supreme Court upheld that “public policy dictates that candidates receiving the highest votes should be proclaimed without unnecessary delay.
“The Court further ruled that the Comelec’s power to suspend the proclamation of a winning candidate is not available in proceedings to declare one a nuisance candidate,” the SC ruling reads.
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