The Comelec 2nd Division rules that Legazpi Councilor Al Barizo should be disqualified for his involvement in a cash assistance distribution event during the 2022 campaign period – the same event that turned the Rosal couple's world upside down.
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections is not finished going after 2022 election candidates in Albay who participated in the infamous cash assistance or ayuda distribution event for tricycle drivers during the campaign period.
The ruling said that Barizo, at the time a councilor who either headed or was a member of the city government’s public utilities committee, had a role in the push to disburse the public funds. “Even if he is not proven to have had a hand in the illegal release or disbursement of public funds during the prohibited period, he surely was a prominent figure in the expenditure of the said funds when those were handed out to the tricycle driver-beneficiaries,” it added.
“Although the text message and the FB post contains words of gratitude for supporting respondent and spouses Rosal, they are not sufficient to link the respondent to the illegal act of vote-buying,” the poll body wrote.
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