Erap moves to Manila to fight Dirty Harry

**_Qwerty_** · March 26th, 2014 11:08 AM

weather weather lang yan..

**NiCe2KnowU** · March 26th, 2014 03:00 PM

erap para sa mahirap.
bakit nya payayamanin mga mahirap sa manila
e di wala na bobo-to sa kanya.
LOLZ

**crazy_boy** · March 26th, 2014 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by NiCe2KnowU

erap para sa mahirap.
bakit nya payayamanin mga mahirap sa manila
e di wala na bobo-to sa kanya.
LOLZ

hindi na daw kasi tatakbong mayor si erap next term

**NiCe2KnowU** · March 26th, 2014 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by crazy_boy

hindi na daw kasi tatakbong mayor si erap next term

kaylangan pa rin nya pahirapin buhay sa manila
dahil tatakbo daw presidente si senatong jinggoy
mas maraming mahirap mas malaki ang boto

**Monseratto** · January 20th, 2015 04:48 PM

Bukas lalabas yung result sa SC. The yellow army already conditioned everyone that Erap will be disqualified. But what's shocking is that ex-Mayor Magoo will get to sit the remaining tenure of hizzoner...

SC tackles Erap DQ case
Posted by Rey G. Panaligan on Jan 20th, 2015

The Supreme Court is set to tackle the disqualification case filed against Manila Mayor Joseph E. Estrada who won over former Mayor Alfredo S. Lim by more than 343,000 votes during the 2013 mayoral election tomorrow.

Today’s full court session has been reset for tomorrow to enable the justices and the office of the clerk of court to prepare for the session, considering there was no work in the SC as yesterday was a holiday.

SC sources said the justices may now be ready to hand down a decision on the two petitions that sought the disqualification of Estrada after the deliberations had been reset several times.

Sought to be annulled in the two petitions was a decision handed down by the Commission on Elections that allowed Estrada to run for mayor of Manila.

With Estrada’s win over Lim, the Comelec affirmed the former’s proclamation as mayor and allowed him to assume his post on June 30, 2013.

The first petition against Estrada was filed by lawyer Alicia Risos-Vidal. Later, Lim intervened and filed his own petition.

In her petition, Vidal told the SC that Estrada’s conviction for plunder in 2007 and his penalty of life imprisonment had rendered him disqualified to run for public office.

She pointed out that the executive pardon granted by then President Gloria M. Arroyo did not cure his disqualification to seek or hold public office.

Lim’s petition aired almost the same issues raised by Vidal.

Estrada had asked the SC to dismiss the disqualification petitions against him.

He said the pardon granted him by Arroyo fully restored his civil and political rights. “The dismissal of the instant petitions is mandatory if not inevitable under the circumstances. After all, the findings and conclusions of the public respondent Comelec were based on the evidence on record and the prevailing laws, rules, and jurisprudential doctrines on pardon and its consequent effects on the eligibility of private respondent Estrada,” he said.

**Altis6453** · January 20th, 2015 05:19 PM

There are a long line of SC decisions wherein the court upheld the power of a sitting President to issue an absolute pardon that erases all effects of criminal conviction --- allowing that person to run for public office. That should apply to Erap as well.

It'll be difficult for the SC to overturn itself, unless it were introducing new election law doctrine.

**chua_riwap** · January 21st, 2015 02:38 PM

Erap pa rin.

Abswelto. 11-3 decision ng SC.

Pwede pa ba MR dito? Pwede pa ma reverse?

**Altis6453** · January 21st, 2015 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by chua_riwap

Erap pa rin.

Abswelto. 11-3 decision ng SC.

Pwede pa ba MR dito? Pwede pa ma reverse?

Pwede MR, but realistically, you'd have to introduce new arguments which would convince 11 justices to change their minds.

**niky** · January 21st, 2015 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by Altis6453

Pwede MR, but realistically, you'd have to introduce new arguments which would convince 11 justices to change their minds.

I doubt that would ever happen. I was watching it on the news, and there's little argument that a pardon is a pardon is a pardon.

So, which Estrada/Ejercito will they go after next in their "impartial" crusade to clean up the results of the last election?

**Altis6453** · January 21st, 2015 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by niky

I doubt that would ever happen. I was watching it on the news, and there's little argument that a pardon is a pardon is a pardon.

So, which Estrada/Ejercito will they go after next in their "impartial" crusade to clean up the results of the last election?

Probably JV, or Guia Gomez. But, for Erap, nangarap lang talaga si Lim regarding his move to disqualify the current Manila mayor. As I said, there is a long line of SC decisions which have upheld the efficacy of a presidential pardon---which is to blot out a criminal conviction and to restore full civil and political rights to the person receiving the pardon.