A LAWYER filed an election disqualification case against the Tulfo brothers who are running for elective positions in the 2025 mid-term elections.
Lawyer Virgilio Garcia filed a 19-page petition with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) where it asked the poll body to disqualify Tulfo family members seeking election, such as ACT-CIS Rep. Erwin Tulfo and broadcast journalist Ben Tulfo, both of whom are running for the Senate; ACT-CIS Rep. Jocelyn Pua-Tulfo and Quezon City Rep. Ralph Tulfo, who are both seeking for a return stint at the House of Representatives, and former Tourism secretary Wanda Tulfo Teo who is a nominee under the Turismo party-list.
Erwin, Ben and Wanda are siblings, while Jocelyn and Ralph are the wife and son of Raffy, who is currently a senator.
Garcia said in his petition filed last week that the Tulfo family members are seen to be forming a political dynasty, which is prohibited under the 1987 Constitution, and that they are not natural-born Filipinos
“They are within the first and second civil degree of consanguinity or of affinity of each other,” the petition declared.
“There is already an existing anomalous scandalous father-mother-son in Congress and this family want to add three more making a total of seven of them, all in (the) same Congress. That is clearly a concentration of political power in one family,” Garcia exclaimed.
The Tulfo family have yet to comment on the disqualification case, saying they have not yet received a copy of the complaint.
Meanwhile, Comelec Chairman George Garcia that the complaint will undergo the usual process where it will be raffled off to a Comelec division.