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Cayetanos insist congressional bids in separate Taguig districts ‘possible’

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Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News

MANILA - Former Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and his wife Lani told the poll body Tuesday they could run for separate congressional districts in Taguig, saying it was “entirely possible” for them to have different residences.The Cayetanos are under fire for what has been described as their “super dynasty” in the bustling southern Metro Manila city.Aside of the couple’s simultaneous congressional run, Cayetano’s older sister Pia, an incumbent House member, is running for senator.Their younger brother Lino, a former congressman, is seeking to replace Lani Cayetano as mayor.The Cayetano couple insisted that Congress has yet to pass a law determining the scope of the constitutional ban on political dynasties.“Absent an enabling law, the electorate should be the best judge of who they want in public office regardless of family relations,” they said in separate answers to petitioner Leonides Buac Jr., who asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to reject the couple’s candidacies.The Buac petition argued that the constitutional ban might have been “enabled” when Congress included an anti-political dynasty provision in the revised law for youth elections. The ban covered those within the second civil degree of consanguinity or affinity.<div> OTHER RESIDENCE</div>Buac also questioned why Cayetano and his wife were running for Congress in Taguig’s first and second districts, respectively, when “a married couple can only maintain one legal residence at any given time.”Alan Peter Cayetano said his house in Barangay Bagumbayan in District 1 remained his domicle, while Lani Cayetano’s domicile was the couple’s condominium unit in Fort Bonifacio in District 2.Lani Cayetano told the Comelec that her husband considers the condo unit “only as his other residence without any intention of abandoning” his Bagumbayan domicile.“It also does not follow that when spouses indicate different residences in their respective (certificates of candidacy), it means that they do not live together as husband and wife,” Alan Peter Cayetano said in his reply.“It is possible for a candidate to have several residences but must have only one domicile or legal residence.”The Buac petition cited a Supreme Court ruling saying that the matrimonial domicile “fixed” by a couple should be their residence or domicile “even for the purpose of seeking elective public office.”Buac’s lawyer Emilio Marañon III earlier told ABS-CBN News that Cayetano and his wife would eventually have to choose who between them should run for Congress next year.

MANILA - Former Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and his wife Lani told the poll body Tuesday they could run for separate congressional districts in Taguig, saying it was “entirely possible” for them to have different residences.

MANILA - Former Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and his wife Lani told the poll body Tuesday they could run for separate congressional districts in Taguig, saying it was “entirely possible” for them to have different residences.

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Cayetanos insist congressional bids in separate Taguig districts ‘possible’

Christian V. Esguerra,

ABS-CBN News

Published December 04, 2018 09:19 PM PHT

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