FORMER President Rodrigo Duterte is now the elected mayor of the Philippines’s largest city, raising new legal and practical questions as to how he would be managing it from his detention cell in The Netherlands, where he awaits trial for crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Comelec spokesman John Rex Laudiangco said the commission is bound by the legal process of proclamation, and, “the raising of hands is only symbolic or ceremonial.“The real proclamation happens once the Certificate of Canvass and Proclamation is signed, read aloud, and issued by the Board of Canvassers—whether municipal, city, provincial, or national,” Laudiangco told reporters in Filipino at the Manila Hotel Tent City.“It’s not the presence that makes the proclamation, but the issuance and reading of the certificate.
During the campaign, the Nograles camp said that a Duterte win may pose a dilemma in city governance. Installing an acting mayor or officer in charge will create confusion and uncertainty in personnel management, especially in the hiring of non-plantilla work, they said.
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