LOOK: 8 coffins laid outside Comelec office

ABS-CBN News

Posted at 07 May 2016 02:25 PM | Updated as of 07 May 2016 02:54 PM

Controversial lawyer Ely Pamatong on Saturday laid eight coffins outside the head office of the Commission on Elections in Intramuros, Manila, during a symbolic wake for the "death of democracy".

The coffins bore the names of President Aquino, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Serreno, Comelec chairman Atty. Andres Bautista and other officials of the poll body, whom protesters accused of murdering the nation's democracy.

Pamatong and his group said they also bemoan the possible rise of a communist government after Monday's elections, in an apparent reference to presidential race frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.

Duterte has been seen by some as a dictator-in-making due to his purported plans of declaring a revolutionary government with the aid of Joma Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

READ: Duterte eyeing revolutionary gov't with Joma Sison - Trillanes

Policemen maintained peace and order during the protest outside the Palacio Del Gobernador.

Pamatong, an erstwhile presidential aspirant, was declared a nuisance candidate by the Comelec last December. The Supreme Court upheld his disqualification the following month.

- DZMM TeleRadyo, 7 April 2016