Commission on Elections Commissioner Rowena Guanzon yesterday said the local candidate who slapped their election officer in Tarlac should be disbarred.
“The candidate who slapped our Comelec EO is Marty Toralba who claims to be a lawyer. We will have him disbarred,” she said in her Twitter account @commrguanzon.
“@Comelec @dirfrancesarabe if that Toralba who slapped our EO of Camiling, Tarlac is a lawyer, file disbarment complaint against him,” Guanzon added.
The Comelec Employees’ Union strongly condemned the assault on Camiling, Tarlac EO Teddy Mariano who they said was merely performing his duty.
“We call on the Comelec to make sure that candidate Toralba be made accountable for this barefaced act of aggression against an election worker who is merely doing his duty of enforcing campaign rules in his jurisdiction,” the group said in a statement.
According to the Comelec EU, Mariano, 59, was slapped in the face by Toralba, a candidate for provincial board member last Saturday, after the conduct of the campaign against illegal campaign posters. (Leslie Aquino)