Ramirez assumes VM in Tayug as poll nears
TAYUG–A victory comes late and a conquest not so sweet.
Madelyn Cabotaje-Ramirez was finally declared as the rightful winner as vice mayor of this town two years and seven months after the May 2007 election, by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc.
On November 26, just a just few days before the deadline for filing of certificates of candidacies for the May 2010 elections, Ramirez assumed her post but her opponent, Janet Zaragoza, has refused to yield to the verdict and padlocked the office.
Ramirez has been holding office at the municipal building’s session hall.
In the 2007 election, Ramirez maintained she had a slim lead over Zaragoza but it was the latter who was proclaimed winner by the Municipal Board of Canvassers.
Believing that she was cheated, Ramirez went to court and the latter decided she won with 8,118 votes against Zaragoza’s 8,036.
Zaragoza appealed the RTC decision but she lost her case before the Comelec’s first division.
She again appealed but the Comelec en banc promulgated on November 25 a resolution dismissing the appeal for lack of merit.
In its decision, the Comelec en banc states:
” The decision of the Regional Trial Court Branch 52 dated October 7, 2008 is hereby affirmed with modification on the number of votes obtained by Ramirez from 8,118 to 8,167; and by Zaragoza from 8,036 to 8,048.
The Comelec noted that little time is left for Ramirez to serve the people of Tayug.—LM
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