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Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo in a Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

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Mayor Alice Guo

Sherrie Ann Torres

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<div><span dir="ltr" id="isPasted"></span></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172543790461220240522-guo-alice-senate-MD-6.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo in a Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo in a Senate hearing in Pasay City on May 22, 2024. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA -- Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo’s legal counsels have a lot of explaining to do and may be held liable for seeking an extension from the Commission on Elections for her counter-affidavit submission, COMELEC Chairman George Erwin Garcia said Wednesday. </p><p>That is, if proven true that Guo has already sneaked out of the Philippines when her lawyers filed the appeal before the COMELEC, Garcia said. </p><p>“May mga katanungan din dun, na kung sakali palang umalis tapos walang intensyong bumalik, eh bakit nagpapa-extend &#x27;yung kanilang abogado? So ibig sabihin, in-extend pala, nag-request sa amin yung pagsagot ng walang ine-expect kami sa pagsagot sapagkat wala na sa Pilipinas yung mismong respondent,” Garcia stressed. </p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/3/alice-guo-arrested-in-indonesia-740">Alice Guo arrested in Indonesia</a></div><p>(There are questions if it’s really true that the client left the country without any intention to come back. So, why did the legal counsel sought an extension? That means that they request for an extension, but we should not expect a reply because the respondent is no longer in the Philippines.) </p><p>“Tingnan natin yung circumstances, pag sinasabi talagang umalis upang hindi na bumalik, upang takasan yung mga kaso dito sa ating bansa, sa ating palagay ay, ito ay contemptuous ikaw nga. Sa kapangyarihan ng korte, sa kapangyarihan ng komisyon,” he added. </p><p>(Let’s look at the circumstances when one leaves the country without any intention of coming back, and escape all the cases against her in the country. That is a contemptuous act, both in the powers of the court and of the commission.)</p><p>“Ano yung pina-extend? Sino ang sasagot?... yan ay mga bagay na again, maaring hindi para sa respondent, kundi sa representante. Kahit na yung abogado, kinakailangang magpaliwanag sa mga bagay na yan,” Garcia pointed out. </p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/4/remulla-accuses-immigration-personnel-of-colluding-with-guo-1323">Remulla accuses Immigration personnel of colluding with Guo</a></div><p>(Then what was extended? Who will answer? Those are the questions that must be answered not by the respondent, but by the representative. The lawyer also needs to explain regarding that matter.)</p><p>Garcia believes that Guo’s lawyers are all capable of submitting their client’s counter-affidavit to beat the September 3 deadline, if they really want to. </p><p>The COMELEC has yet to receive the said document from Guo’s camp as of press time, Garcia said. He added that they will no longer give another extension for Guo to file her counter-affidavit regarding the misrepresentation complaint awaiting her at the COMELEC. </p><p>“Para sa atin, the fact na binigyan ka ng pagkakataon na makasagot, nasa Pilipinas ka man o wala, eh yun ang pagkakataon na hindi dapat binabalewala ng kahit na sino. Again, ang COMELEC naman ay nagbigay na ng tamang panahon, mahaba-habang panahon upang masagot mo ito,” Garcia said. </p><p>(The fact that you were given the chance to reply, whether you are in the Philippines or not, such is an opportunity that must not be ignored by anyone. Again, the COMELEC gave an ample time for the respondent to answer the allegation.) </p><p>“Hindi rin naman pupwede na yung kapangyarihan namin ay naka-depende sa kapritso o kagustuhan ng ibang tao lalo pa kung ikaw ay may hinaharap na kaso dito sa Commission on Elections,” Garcia pointed out. </p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/4/timeline-alice-guo-s-secret-escape-from-ph-and-arrest-in-indonesia-1118">TIMELINE: Alice Guo&#x27;s secret escape from PH and arrest in Indonesia</a></div><p>(The COMELEC’s authority should not depend on anyone’s whim especially if that person has a pending case here in the Commission on Elections.) </p><p>While saying that it will be up to the COMELEC Law Department to make the final recommendation, Garcia has assured the public that the Commission en Banc will immediately act on whatever ruling that they will receive. </p><p>What’s important, he said, is that Guo was given all the leeway by the COMELEC to reply.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h52F1NHw3qk?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo’s legal counsels have a lot of explaining to do and may be held liable for seeking an extension from the Commission on Elections for her counter-affidavit submission, COMELEC Chairman George Erwin Garcia said Wednesday.</p>

Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo’s legal counsels have a lot of explaining to do and may be held liable for seeking an extension from the Commission on Elections for her counter-affidavit submission, COMELEC Chairman George Erwin Garcia said Wednesday.

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Guo's lawyers may be held liable by COMELEC, says Garcia

Sherrie Ann Torres,

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Published Sep 04, 2024 04:18 PM PHT

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