Manila, Nov. 6 -- The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that a candidate's low vote count in past elections does not automatically make him or her a nuisance candidate in future elections.

In a decision made public on Wednesday, the SC En Banc annulled the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) resolutions cancelling the certificate of candidacy (COC) of Subair Guinthum Mustapha in the 2025 senatorial elections.

Mustapha filed his COC under the Workers and Peasants Party (WPP).

The Comelec Law Department moved to declare him a nuisance candidate, citing that Mustapha only received 5,387 votes -- just 2.01 percent of the total votes for the Lanao del Sur representative seat in the 2022 elections.

Mustapha argued that he is a qualified and serio...