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Salvador Q. Pedido, Et Al. vs. Commission On Elections, Et Al.

SALVADOR Q. PEDIDO and THE FIRST MUNICIPAL BOARD OF CANVASSERS FOR PIODURAN, ALBAY, petitioners, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, ATTY. GERTRUDO KALAMBAKAL, ATTY. BARBARA PORTUGAL, THE SECOND and THIRD MUNICIPAL BOARD OF CANVASSERS FOR PIODURAN, ALBAY, and PROTESTO PAVIA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-28539 | 1968-03-30

D E C I S I O N 


SANCHEZ, J.: 

Certiorari to annul the proclamation of respondent Protesto Pavia as Mayor-elect of the Municipality of Pioduran, Albay. 

The present petition stems from facts following: 

Candidates for Mayor of the Municipality of Pioduran in the November 14, 1967 elections were reelectionist petitioner Salvador Q. Pedido and respondent Protesto Pavia. 

On December 13, 1967, the municipal board of canvassers, composed of Vice Mayor Domingo P. Cadag, chairman, and Salazar Floranza, Edmundo Sequitin, Luis Bagamasbad; Ildefonso Nuñez, Bernardino Cortez, Mario Tarog and Justiniano Perez, members (hereinafter...