Suspended Mayor Alice Guo cited in contempt, SC petition filed

Suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo was cited in contempt by a Senate panel on Wednesday for failing to appear at the hearing due to medical reasons.

Guo's lawyer Stephen David confirmed that she would not attend the hearing and sent an excuse letter citing her emotional and physical exhaustion from previous hearings.

The Senate panel ruled to issue a warrant of arrest against Mayor Guo and seven other individuals linked to illegal POGO operations in Porac, Pampanga.

On Wednesday, July 10, Guo's legal team filed a petition before the Supreme Court seeking to nullify the subpoena and requested a temporary restraining order from implementing it.

Guo also wants the SC to direct the Senate committee from further inviting her to the hearings, claiming grave abuse of discretion by the panel.

Aside from the Senate probe, Guo faces additional challenges including a non-bailable qualified trafficking complaint and a petition filed with a local Tarlac court seeking to cancel her birth certificate.

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