(UPDATE) THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has dismissed a petition seeking to disqualify televangelist Apollo Quiboloy from running for the Senate in next year's elections.

In a 14-page decision promulgated on Dec. 18, the Comelec First Division ruled that the petitioner, labor leader Sonny Matula, failed to provide sufficient evidence to cancel the detained religious leader's certificate of candidacy (COC).

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