Eddie Gil’s candidacy – 2004
The Commission on Elections originally affirmed the candidacies of six people for the president. The sixth person running for president was Eduardo "Eddie" Gil, a known Marcos loyalist. The party of Eduardo Villanueva filed a petition with the COMELEC seeking to disqualify Eddie Gil on the basis of him being a nuisance candidate, his incapacity to mount a nationwide campaign, and that because he was running with the aim to confuse voters because of their similar names.
Eddie Gil claims to be an international banker having a net worth of billions of dollars. His platform for presidency promised to make every Filipino a millionaire within his first 100 days of being elected. He also promised to pay off the Philippines’ debt, worth trillions of pesos, from his own pocket. This was widely ridiculed, especially after a recent incident in which a check he had issued to pay his hotel bills during a campaign sortie, bounced.
See also
- Official Congressional canvass - 2004
- Election scandal - 2004
- PET Case No. 003, Legarda v. De Castro, January 18, 2008
- COMELEC's move for an automated elections - 2004
- The LDP split - 2004
- Eddie Gil's candidacy - 2004 (This post)
- Death of Lawyer Maria Jeanette Tecson
- Fernando Poe, Jr.’s candidacy - 2004
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s candidacy - 2004
- Philippine General Election - 2004