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Sidro, Proceso vs. Commission on Elections, et al.

PROCESO SIDRO, petitioner, vs. THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and NESTORIO TEJANO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-64033 | 1983-07-25

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J.:

The disposition of this appeal by certiorari from a decision of respondent Commission on Election presents no difficulty in the light of the undisputed facts and the applicable legal principles. After the January 1980 local elections, to be precise, on January 31, 1980, private respondent, Nestorio Tejano, the Nacionalista candidate, was proclaimed as the duly elected mayor of Mapanas, Northern Samar, having obtained more than two hundred votes as against petitioner, Proceso Sidro, the KBL candidate. 1 He then filed a quo warranto petition for disqualification of the victor. He alleged that private...