By Gregg M. Rubio/FPL (The Philippine Star) | Updated November 12, 2014 - 12:00am
CEBU, Philippines - The Office of the Ombudsman has sustained its 2010 decision suspending Aloguinsan Mayor Cynthia Moreno and her husband Vice Mayor Augustus Caesar Moreno for six months after they were found guilty of an administrative case.
Graft Investigation and Prosecution Officer III Jose Ronald Bersales denied on October 23, 2014 the motion for reconsideration filed by the Morenos. The ruling was approved by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales.
The vice mayor, however, said they have already filed a petition for certiorari before the Court of Appeals with prayer for the issuance of temporary restraining order.
The Morenos invoked the Aguinaldo Doctrine in their petition despite insistence of the anti-graft office in its recent decision that the doctrine is not applicable in the case saying the respondents were not elected to the same position during the immediate subsequent election from the questioned act.
"The spirit of Aguinaldo Doctrine is the trust and confidence of the people electing us to the office," Caesar said.
"Aguinaldo was reelected to the same position of Governor during the immediate subsequent election from the questioned act, while Cynthia was not reelected as Mayor but only elected as Vice-Mayor and Caesar was not reelected as Vice Mayor but as Mayor during the immediate subsequent 2010 National and Local Elections from the questioned act occurred in 2008," Bersales ruled.
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