By MIKHA FLORES
CHAIRMAN Sixto Brillantes Jr. said the Commission on Elections will take no action on the case of Lucy Torres-Gomez, who was unseated by the Supreme Court as representative of the fourth district of Leyte, and said her case was different from that of Imus, Cavite mayor Emmanuel Maliksi.
The high court on Tuesday invalidated Torres-Gomez’s substitution for her husband, actor Richard Gomez, as congressional candidate in the May 2010 elections.
The ruling can still be appealed because it is not final and executory unlike the case of Maliksi where the decision was immediately executory, Brillantes said. The poll body on Monday ordered Maliksi to vacate his office after serving him a writ of execution following a Supreme Court decision declaring his rival as the real winner in the 2010 elections.
