FORMER Bacolod City vice mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson was given 15 days by the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET) to submit additional papers to establish facts on his electoral protest against Lone District Representative Greg Gasataya.
Sayson lost to Gasataya in the May 2016 elections.
The HRET gave the directive after the preliminary conference held on Tuesday.
Counsel Eduardo Padios, who represents Sayson, said Gasataya through his lawyers Juvy Dioso and Karol Joseph Tiu filed a motion to dismiss the electoral protest on the ground of lack of course of action because there is no election violation complaint and also no complaint on the results of the vote counting machines.
“It’s a usual defense. We filed the protest after the manual audit done by Comelec showed that in three precincts, I got plus nine votes. Our point also is the 27,000 votes that were not counted,” Sayso added.
Padios said they expect the HRET to proceed with the revision of ballots. (TDE)
10. TAGS: Bureau of Fire Protection, Promotion, Negros Island Region, BFP
BFP-NIR chief promoted
rFRED Trajeras Jr., officer-in-charge of the Bureau of Fire Protection-Negros Island Region (BFP-NIR), has been promoted from Superintendent to Senior Superintendent recently.
The order was signed by Secretary Ismael Sueno of Department of Interior and Local Government.
Trajeras served as fire marshall of BFP in Negros Occidental before he was assigned officer-in-charge of BFP-NIR on October 18, 2016.
Officials from BFP in Western Visayas and Soccsksargen and BFP national headquarters were also promoted. (GYM)