COMELEC will release names of party listers

but only at the last minute, somewhere within a few days before the May 14 elections. By that time, there won't be enough time to check the backgrounds of these shady Party List group nominees.

Yup. That's my prediction.

From the Malaya: SC asked to compel Comelec to name party list nominees

AKBAYAN Rep. Loretta Ann Rosales and former Senate President Jovito Salonga yesterday asked the Supreme Court to compel the Commission on Elections to disclose the names of all party list nominees for the May 14 elections.

In a 32-page petition for certiorari and mandamus, Rosales and Salonga, who represent Kilosbayan Foundation and Bantay Katarungan Foundation, said disclosure is required under R.A. 7941 or the Party List Law.

Petitioners asked the Comelec to furnish the names of nominees of newly accredited party list groups Babae Ka, Ang Kasangga, Akbay Pinoy, Aksa, Kakusa, Ahon Pinoy PFW party, Biyaheng Pinoy, Anad, Aangat and Kabuhayan, Agbiag, Banat, Bantay, Lypad and Aging Pinoy.

Rosales and Salonga said the Comelec made an erroneous reading of a portion of Section 7 of RA 7941, which states that the names of the party list nominees shall not be shown on the certified list.