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Camano
files DQ case vs. rival
San
Miguel Mayor Francisco T. Camano, Jr. turned up
the heat in the race for his post last week when
he asked the Commission on Elections to
disqualify his bitter rival, Florendo Bernal,
for lack of residency.
In
the petition filed before the COMELEC provincial
office, Mayor Camano claimed that Bernal has
never resided in San Miguel but in Daet,
Camarines Norte where he lived and worked as a
licensed contractor.
The
reelectionist mayor described Bernal as a
transient who lodges at Marem's Pension House
whenever he is in Catanduanes. He added that the
candidate started visiting San Miguel only in
January of this year, sometimes spending the
night in the house of a certain Nestor Tatel in
barangay District I in the poblacion.
To
buttress his claim, Camano stated that Bernal
has no house or residence in San Miguel and does
not even own real property or a registered
business in the municipality.
The
filing of the disqualification against Bernal
comes days after he himself filed a similar case
against mayoral candidate Armando Bernal of
barangay Obo. Bernal claimed that Armando is
jobless and incapable of undergoing a full-blown
campaign, much less spend for campaign
materials.
Bernal
said that Armando, who he said was only
prevailed upon by Mayor Camano to file his
candidacy last Feb. 28, was never known in his
own barangay that he would be a candidate for
mayor
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