Yesterday, two leading dailies carried in their front-page headlines the news that the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s First Division has “junk(ed)” the three consolidated petitions for the disqualification of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on a tax-code conviction in 1995, and ruled him as “qualified to be elected” president in the May 9 national elections. The First Division is now composed of only two commissioners after its presiding officer, Commissioner Rowena Guanzon, retired on Feb. 2, and her separate opinion disqualifying Marcos Jr. had been set aside. Following Guanzon’s retirement, along…