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Introduced by Senator Antonio "Sonny" F. Trillanes IV 
Explanatory Note 
The presence of nuisance candidates is a product of a loose electoral system. As a consequence, 
before every election, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Commissioners will have to 
weed OU? from the list, candidates that the law considers as mere nuisance, and in determining 
who the nuisance candidates are, their main task is to look into the intentions of these candidates 
and a close assessment to the candidates' chances of victory, amox others. 
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the Congress provides for effective measures to minimize election spending, including limitation 
of places where propaganda materials shall be posted, and to prevent and penalize all forms of 
election frauds, offenses, malpractices, and nuisance candidacies. 
It is in this line that this bill seeks to expand the grounds for declaring a person a nuisance 
candidate provided that, the person has previously run at least three (3) times for the same 
elective oftice and that said candidate garnered less than ten (10) percent of the total number of 
votes cast on the position on hisiher third and/or last election. While the Omnibus Election Code 
obviously dissuades those who have the least chances in winning the elections, such is not 
deterrence for these candidates to file their respective certificates of candidacy. 
In view of the foregoing, the early passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
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FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
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Second Regular Session 
REPUl3LIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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Introduced by Senator Antonio “Sonny” F Tnllanes IV 
AN ACT 
EXPANDING TEE GROUNDS FOR DECLARING A PERSON A NUISANCE 
CANDIDATE, THEREBY AMENDING SECTION 69 OF BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG 
881 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE OMNIBUS ELECTION CODE 
Be it enacted by the Senate andHouse OfRepresentatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assem bled: 
SECTION 1. Section 69 ofBatas PambansaBilang 881, otherwise known as the 
Omnibus Election Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
“SEC. 69. The Commission may motu propio or upon a verified petition of an interested 
party, refuse to give due course to or cancel a certificate of candidacy if it is shown that said 
certificate has been filed to put the election process in mockery or disrepute or to cause 
confusion among the voters by the similarity of the mimes of the registered candidates or by 
other circumstances or acts which clearly demonstrate that the candidate has no bona fide 
intention to run for the office for which the certificate of candidacy has been filed and thus 
prevent a faithful determination of the true will of the electorate. 
“FURTHER, THE COMMISSION MAY MOTU PROP10 OR UPON THE VERIFIED 
PETITION OF AN INTERESTED PARTY, MAY DECLARE A PERSON A NUISANCE 
CANDIDATE IF THE PERSON HAS PREVIOUSLY RUN AT LEAST THREE (3) 
TIMES FOR THE SAME ELECTIVE OFFICE, AND THAT HE GARNERED LESS 
THAN TEN (10) PERCENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES CAST IN THE 


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THIRD OR LAST ELECTION PERIOD IN WHICH HE/SHE RUN FOR THE SAID 
ELECTIVE OFFICE. 
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SEC.2. Repealing Clause. Any laws, decrees, ordinances or rules and regulations 
which are inconsistent with or contray to the provision of this Act is hereby amended or 
repealed. 
SEC. 3. Separability Clause. - If any provision of this Act is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected hereby shall m a i n  wlid and subsisting. 
SEC. 4. Effectitivi&. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its complete 
publication in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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