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Pamil vs. Teleron [CONCURRING OPINION, BARREDO]

FORTUNATO R. PAMIL, petitioner-appellant, vs. HONORABLE VICTORINO C. TELERON, as Judge of the Court of First Instance of Bohol, Branch III, and REV. FR. MARGARITO R. GONZAGA, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-34854 | 1978-11-20

CONCURRING OPINION
 
BARREDO, J.:
 
My vote is to grant the petition and to declare respondent Rev. Fr. Margarito R. Gonzaga disqualified under Section 2175 of the Revised Administrative Code from being mayor of Albuquerque, Bohol, which position he has assumed by virtue of his winning in the local elections held in 1971, for which reason he should be ordered to vacate the same. I would, however, limit the grounds for my vote to the considerations hereinunder stated, for it is not the danger of any form or degree of church control of state affairs that I perceive in allowing an ecclesiastic to be elected as mayor, the occurrence of...