BBM still top choice for President -surveys
FORMER Senator Ferdinand “BongBong” Marcos still emerged as the most preferred presidential candidate in the recent surveys conducted by two major news outlets in the country.
In the Oct. 26 to Nov. 2 survey participated by 1,500 registered voters, 68% replied that they would vote for Marcos. He was far ahead of second placer Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo who got 10.8 percent.
In the same survey, respondents were also asked, “If you were to vote for a president and a VP pair, who do you think is the best tandem for the Philippines?”
The survey showed that 55.7 percent of those polled picked the partnership between Marcos and Sara Duterte-Carpio, with a 43.5 percent lead over the second place.
This result came out even if it remains unclear if the Davao City mayor will file for substitution for vice presidential position.
When he filed his CoC, Marcos declared that he was open to discussing with other political parties a possible partnership on who will stand as his running mate for the 2022 elections.
In the other publication, at least 689,000 out of 1.1 million respondents have already reacted they would vote for Marcos as of its November 6 tally.
Last week, a group filed a petition asking the Commission on Elections to invalidate Marcos’ CoC.
However, some legal experts said that there was no basis for the petition since the former senator has not been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude.
A group cited the ruling of the Supreme Court in the case of Ty-Delgado v. HRET that disqualification arising from a conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude shall be removed after the expiration of a period of five years from the service of sentence under Section 12 of the Omnibus Election Code.
Then Associate Justice Antonio Carpio used the case of Teves v. Comelec as his basis in the computation of the disqualification that has a period of five years.
The Court of Appeals fined Marcos for his non-filing of income tax returns in 1997. He paid the fines in December 2001. The group said that following the Supreme Court ruling on the five-year period, the disqualification case against him has lapsed.
