Parties in Marcos DQ cases given until Jan. 9 to submit memoranda

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has given the parties in the two disqualification cases filed against presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bong Bong” Marcos Jr. 48 hours to file their memoranda.

Presiding Commissioner Rowena Guanzon ordered petitioners Bonifacio Ilagan, and Akbayan and Marcos to submit through electronic mail (e-mail) their memorandum on Sunday.

“Lawyers hereby given 48 hours to file their memorandum. Your 48 hours begin noon today (Friday). You’re to file memorandum via email. And hard copy the next day. If the court received it, it is deemed filed. January 9 at noon on Sunday via email, then hard copy on Monday, January 10 at noon,” Guanzon said in a PNA report, after Friday’s preliminary conference of the cases held at the session hall of the Comelec main office in Intramuros, Manila.