New Comelec exec inhibits self from previous clients’ cases

MANILA, Philippines --- Election lawyer George Erwin Garcia, a newly appointed member of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), said on Tuesday that he had inhibited himself in the cases of his former clients. One of Garcia's clients was presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. "In fact, the reason I did not immediately assume [the post] was that I prioritized inhibiting myself and my withdrawal from all the cases where I had an appearance," Garcia, speaking partly in Filipino, said in "DZMM Teleradyo." He had been asked for assurance that he would not lean n favor of the cases of Marcos. "In the end, of course, I will be leaning towards what might be in his...

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