CONFUSION and tension gripped the city last night as Vice Mayor Caesar Ian Acenas and Councilor Lourdes Darimbang took their oath as mayor and vice mayor, respectively.
Embattled Mayor Oscar Moreno’s lawyers said the official has not vacated his post and has questioned the legality of Acenas’s and Darimbang’s moves.
The surprise move came after Mayor Oscar Moreno failed to secure a temporary restraining order from the Court of Appeals (CA) that failed to act on his urgent petition after Associate Justices Edgardo Lloren, Edgardo Camello, and Pablito Perez, on separate occasions yesterday, inhibited from hearing the case due to still unclear reasons.
Councilor Alexander Dacer said the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) served the ombudman’s order to dismiss Moreno at 6:24 pm.
Acenas and Darimbang wasted no time, and swore in as mayor and vice mayor, respectively, before assistant prosecutor Abdullah Macagaan inside the vice mayor’s office shortly before 7 pm.
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