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Following his refusal to attend a preliminary conference of the disqualification proceedings filed against him last week, a Commission on Elections (Comelec) official said she will demand the camp of presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to show his notarized medical certificate.

During the preliminary hearing on January 7, First Division presiding Commissioner Rowena Guanzon said she would require Marcos’ attending physician, Dr. Benedict Francis Valdecaas, to produce a notarized medical certificate that would be read by the respondent’s lawyer.

“Now I have to demand that the doctor who evaluated Marcos Jr has his medical certificate notarized and include his medical license number,” she tweeted on Monday.

After evaluating Marcos in the morning of January 6 at his Makati City apartment, the physician reported he had a temperature of 37.8 degrees Celsius and his throat was hyperemic and swollen, according to the medical certificate.

According to reports, Marcos did, however, appear on a radio show the following day.

“If this is true, why didn’t his lead lawyer present a medical certificate dated January 6?” “I shall order the doctor and Atty (Vic) Rodriguez to show cause or for his physician’s medical certificate to be notarized,” said the poll body’s Commissioner.

The preliminary conference on the three petitions to disqualify Marcos from standing in next year’s elections, brought by Bonifacio Ilagan, Abubakar Mangelen, and Akbayan, was held on Friday in the First Division.

Guanzon gave the parties 48 hours after the hearing, or until noon on January 9, to submit their memoranda by electronic mail.

After the petitioners and respondent have delivered their memoranda, the cases are submitted for determination.

In the meantime, Akbayan has petitioned the poll body to hold Marcos in contempt for allegedly lying about his absence from the meeting last Friday.

“He lied through his teeth,” says the narrator. In a statement, Akbayan First Nominee Percival Cendana said, “He ought to be held in contempt.”

The group is raising concerns about Marcos’ radio interview, which he granted the day before the hearing.

“The fact that he was able to do a radio interview less than a day before his required appearance in a hearing not only proves dishonesty, but it also shows the entire nation that he is unconcerned about our laws and the procedures that oblige every citizen to respect them,” he continued.

The former senator’s camp stated in a statement that the radio interview exacerbated his illness.

Guanzon had previously stated that the division will issue a resolution by the middle of the month.

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