The Supreme Court (SC) issued on Monday a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the cancellation of Jonas Cortes’s Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for Mayor of Mandaue City, Cebu.
Said TRO will prevent the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from implementing its Resolutions canceling Cortes’ COC for the 2025 midterm elections.
Likewise, the order also prevented the Comelec from deleting his name from the list of candidates.
The Comelec and Ervin Estandarte is required to comment on the petition within a non-extendible period of 15 days from receipt of the notice.
The poll body has yet to issue an official response to this development.
Earlier, the SC also granted TROs reversing Comelec resolutions that disqualified four candidates for local positions and one senatorial aspirant.
This affected the ongoing preparations of the Comelec for the upcoming May elections.