| Protagonists in Tudela, Cebu dispute over the mayor’s seat: Rogelio Baquerfo (above, center, with his lawyer Noel Archival) and Demetrio Granada (right) at the Cebu Capitol. Granada issued yesterday an executive order naming the town vice mayor as acting mayor, thus complicating the controversy. (Sunstar photo/Amper Campaña) |
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MALACAÑANG has ordered Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes to answer within 15 days the complaint filed by six city councilors against him for dishonesty, oppression, misconduct in office, abuse of authority and culpable violation of the Constitution.
In a fax message to Cortes, Atty. Rowena Turingan-Sanchez, Director IV of the Office of the President, directed the mayor to submit his verified answer, not a motion to dismiss, on the complaint dated April 30, 2008.
Biaño said the complaint stemmed from Cortes’ two executive orders which, they say, contradict provisions of the City’s appropriation ordinance and other provisions of the law.
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