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Guillermo S. Arcenas vs. Commission on Elections

GUILLERMO S. ARCENAS, petitioner, vs. THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and JESUS R. VITUG, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 54039 | 1980-11-28

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J.:

The decision issue in this certiorari proceeding is whether or not, as alleged by petitioner Guillermo Arcenas, the defeated mayoralty candidate for Hermosa, Bataan in the local election held on January 30, 1980, respondent Commission on Elections committed a grave abuse of discretion in motu proprio dismissing his action for disqualification of private respondent Jesus Vitug, Jr., the victor in such election. He was thereafter subsequently proclaimed and is now holding such office. For reasons to be set forth, the answer must be in the negative. There was no abuse of discretion, much less a grave one.

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