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Comelec orders PDP-Laban Pacquiao wing to answer 'illegitimate' tag in Cusi petition

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Jauhn Etienne Villaruel, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi and Manny Pacquaio, leaders of rival factions in PDP-Laban. ABS-CBN News/File" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/life/09/07/20210902-cusi-pacquiao.jpg"/><figcaption>Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi and Manny Pacquaio, leaders of rival factions in PDP-Laban. ABS-CBN News/File</figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA— The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has directed the PDP-Laban faction led by Senators Manny Pacquiao and Koko Pimentel to comment on the petition filed by a rival wing seeking to declare theirs &quot;illegitimate.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Comelec orders PDP-Laban Pacquiao wing to answer " tag="" in="" Cusi="" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/09/23/doc.jpg"/></figure></div><p>In an en banc order dated Sept. 22, the Comelec asked Pacquiao and Pimentel to file within 5 days their answer to the Sept. 7 petition by the PDP-Laban faction led by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/07/21/pdp-laban-cusi-faction-wants-pacquiao-wing-acts-voided">PDP-Laban Cusi faction asks Comelec to void acts of Pacquiao wing</a></li></ul><p>The Cusi wing petition had asked Comelec to declare Pacquiao&#x27;s group as &quot;illegitimate officers and/or unauthorized representatives&quot; of the PDP-Laban. </p><p>The party was founded by Pimentel&#x27;s late father Aquilino Pimentel Jr. </p><p>&quot;All their actions should be declared illegal and we are asking the Comelec to refrain them from representing that they are the official representative of PDP-Laban,&quot; PDP-Laban Cusi wing secretary general Melvin Matibag told ABS-CBN News earlier. </p><p>Both the Cusi and Pacquiao wings earlier confirmed they submitted to Comelec separate Sworn Information Update Statements (SIUS) — a document stating the party&#x27;s office details, list of officers, list of elected members, and other information.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/17/21/feud-over-control-of-pdp-laban-reaches-comelec">2 party filings: Pacquiao-Cusi feud over control of PDP-Laban enters Comelec</a></li></ul><p>Comelec chairman Sheriff Abas predicted &quot;bloody&quot; deliberations on which PDP-Laban wing to recognize, but added they will be guided by laws in resolving the case.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/23/21/resolving-pdp-laban-feud-will-be-bloody-comelec">&#x27;Madugo yan&#x27;: Comelec predicts chaos in resolving PDP-Laban&#x27;s internal rift</a></li></ul><p>Pacquiao, formerly a close ally of President Rodrigo Duterte, a party stalwart, has already launched his presidential bid last weekend.</p><p>Meanwhile, the Cusi wing has been pushing for Duterte aide Sen. Christopher &quot;Bong&quot; Go to run for president, with the incumbent as his running mate.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3qsSUOH7270?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

Senators Manny Pacquiao and Koko Pimentel have been directed to comment on the petition to declare them an 'illegitimate' PDP-Laban wing.

Comelec orders PDP-Laban Pacquiao wing to answer 'illegitimate' tag in Cusi petition

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Comelec orders PDP-Laban Pacquiao wing to answer 'illegitimate' tag in Cusi petition

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel,

ABS-CBN News

Published September 23, 2021 04:26 PM PHT

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