Comelec Allows Teodoro's Proclamation as Marikina Representative

WINNER. Marikina City Mayor Marcelino Teodoro delivers his speech at the Learners Convergence Meeting held at the Marikina Convention Center in Marikina City on May 11, 2023. Teodoro is set to sit as Marikina's first district representative in the 20th Congress after the Commission on Elections en banc, in a ruling promulgated on Wednesday (June 25, 2025), lifted the suspension on his proclamation. (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)

MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has lifted the suspension on the proclamation of outgoing Marikina City Mayor Marcelino Teodoro as the winning congressional candidate of the city's first district.

In a 38-page resolution promulgated on Wednesday, the Comelec en banc reversed the ruling of the First Division, which suspended Teodoro's proclamation over alleged material misrepresentation of his address in his certificate of candidacy (COC).

The ruling granted Teodoro's consolidated motions for reconsideration and reversed the resolution cancelling his COC.

According to the poll body, the petitioners failed to prove that Teodoro committed material representation in connection with his residency in Barangay San Roque in Marikina's first district.

\"There is nothing wrong with Respondent's flip-flopping transfer of voter registration. In Aquino v. Comelec, the Supreme Court did not find anything wrong in an individual hanging residences so he could run for an elective post, for as long as he is able to prove with reasonable certainty that he has effected a change of residence for election law purposes for the period required by law,\" the Comelec said.

It added that it is \"undisputed\" that Teodoro is neither a stranger nor a newcomer in Marikina's first district, \"as it is in fact his domicile of origin.\"

\"The order for the suspension of the proclamation of respondent Marcelino 'Marcy' R. Teodoro issued by the Commission (En Banc) on 12 May 2025 is hereby lifted,\" the Comelec ruled.

\"Finally, the certificate of candidacy of herein respondent Marcelino \"Marcy\" R. Teodoro for the Member of the House of Representatives, 1st District, Marikina City in the 12 May 2025 National and Local Elections is hereby reinstated.\"

Two petitions seeking to cancel Teodoro's COC over material misrepresentation were filed with the Comelec, one of them by his contender in the congressional seat, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino \"Koko\" Pimentel III. (PNA)