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His widow, Dr. Marie Ann Serrano Pernes, quickly stepped up as his substitute and filed her certificate of candidacy with Comelec around 9 a.m. Monday, Election Day. The late Dr. Jojo Pernes holds up his certificate of candidacy. Photo courtesy of the Pernes family.

According to Comelec Resolution 9518, “The substitute for a candidate who died… may file his Certificate of Candidacy up to mid-day of election day, provided that the substitute and the substituted have the same surnames.” With his wife to substitute for him if he gained the seat, Pernes won by a large margin, garnering 26,642 votes compared to Orlando Fua Jr., his opponent, who took 22,845 votes, according to GMA’s Eleksyon 2013 partial unofficial vote tally representing 92.5 percent of total votes.

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yes, the fuas are a political dynasty in siquijor as far as i can remember (and i happen to have a memory of three lifetimes ).

no, sorcery never works for siquijodnons themselves.  rather, it works only for idiot voters outside of siquijor, which means practically the rest of the philippines that voted some nincompoops into the senate.

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