Claim: Former Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) spokesperson Celina Pialago is a nominee of 111 Frontliners Ang Bida party-list group.
Rating: FALSE
Context:
The verified Facebook page “Asec Celine Pialago” shared on March 30, 2022 (9:48 am) this picture that identifies Pialago as a “nominee” of 111 Frontliners ang Bida party-list group (Asec Celine Pialago, 2022). Concerned citizens have also posted tarpaulins of this party-list group naming Pialago as its nominee (see, for example, Depasucat, 2022).
Based on Kontra Daya’s (2022) data set (as culled from various sources of information), the five party-list nominees of this party-list group are Joher H. Joson, Arturo N. Atayde, Ruby Rose B. Lumbad-Del Castillo, Jaybee C. Ruiz and Poch Merick B. Bonifacio II. Pialago is not listed as a party-list nominee of 111 Frontliners Ang Bida party-list group.
Pialago used to be a party-list nominee of the disqualified party-list group Malasakit. She was reportedly “adopted” by her new party-list groups in February 2022 (Philippine News Agency, 2022) even if it was way past the November 15, 2021 deadline for withdrawals and substitutions (De Leon, 2022).
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