Manila, April 16 -- The Commission on Elections' (Comelec) Task Force on Safeguarding Against Fear and Exclusion in Elections (SAFE) on Wednesday filed a motu proprio petition for disqualification against Pasig City congressional candidate Christian Sia.

In the petition filed before the Clerk of the Commission, task force head Sonia Bea Wee-Lozada sought Sia's disqualification for violating Comelec Resolution 11116, or the Anti-Discriminatory and Fair Campaigning Guidelines, for this year's midterm elections over his lewd remarks against single mothers.

Sia, in an April 3 campaign sortie, said he is willing to sleep with single mothers who are still menstruating and are lonely once a year if he is elected.

Ordered by the task force to ...