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The SC en banc decision stems from a petition filed by John Barry Tayam, a personal citizen
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Courtroom has accepted a petition searching for to assessment a ruling by the Fee on Elections (Comelec) that cleared Senator Chiz Escudero over a P30-million marketing campaign donation he acquired from authorities contractor Lawrence Lubiano.
In an en banc decision dated February 18, the Excessive Courtroom granted the petition filed by John Barry Tayam, a personal citizen, to assessment ballot physique’s resolution.
In November 2025, Comelec’s Political Finance and Affairs Division dominated that Escudero didn’t violate election legal guidelines in accepting the donation. It additionally discovered that Lubiano didn’t breach any guidelines by contributing to the Escudero marketing campaign.
Below Part 95 (c) of the Election Code, “any pure and juridical individuals who maintain contracts or sub-contracts to provide the federal government or any of its divisions, subdivisions or instrumentalities, with items or companies or to carry out development or different works” are prohibited from making marketing campaign donations “for functions of partisan political exercise.”
A Rappler investigation earlier confirmed that Lubiano, proprietor of Centerways Building — one of many nation’s high flood management contractors — was Escudero’s largest marketing campaign donor.
Following the report, Comelec launched a motu proprio investigation. The controversy, amongst different components, finally led to Escudero’s ouster as Senate president.
Escudero additionally allegedly acquired kickbacks from flood management tasks, primarily based on a sworn statement throughout a Senate investigation. This, nonetheless, was denied by Escudero. – Rappler.com
