Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio sees no more reason to decline his automatic nomination for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The top magistrate post will soon become vacant as current Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro reaches her mandatory retirement by next week. Carpio is one of the five most senior Associate Justices of the Supreme Court who are automatically nominated for the Chief Justice post. During the search to replace ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, Carpio declined the nomination saying he does not want to benefit from a process that he opposed. Carpio is one of the justices who dissented in the May 11, 2018 decision of the high court, removing Sereno as Chief Justice via a quo warranto petition.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 03, 2018 10:18 UTC