The Commission on Elections has resolved to issue a certificate of proclamation for  Maria Camille llagan as the party list representative of Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD) in the House of Representatives in the 19th Congress.

The poll body resolved to give due course to the new list of nominees submitted by the party list group, namely, Maria Camille L. llagan Lily Grace A. Tiangco Marianne Heidi C. Fullon Dylan Romulo C. Santos Bernadine T. Montelibano.

The group submitted a new list of nominees after the Supreme Court voided the substitution of former Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon as the first nominee of P3PWD Party-List, which won a seat in the 2022 elections.

The Supreme Court said the Comelec resolution allowing Guanzon to be a substitute first nominee of P3PWD Party-List was issued with “grave abuse of discretion” because it was done beyond the deadline.

The Supreme Court (SC) en banc earlier granted a petition seeking the removal of Guanzon from the list of nominees of P3PWD party-list in the 2022 elections.

In its decision, the SC granted the petition filed by the Duterte Youth party-list seeking to declare a Comelec resolution, which allowed the substitution of Guanzon as P3PWD nominee, as null and void.

Comelec: SC ruling on P3PWD Party-List settles 'gray areas' in nominee substitution

The Comelec earlier welcomed the Supreme Court ruling, saying it clarified gray areas in party-list substitution.

In an ambush interview in Quezon City, Comelec chairman George Erwin Garcia said the ruling will help guide the commission in dealing with similar issues in the future.

"So ngayon po, madami po kaming gagawing pagbabago sa aming guidelines — sa aming rules lalo na sa party-list dahil sa mga nalagay na prinsipyo ng Korte Suprema dun sa kanilang desisyon," Garcia said.