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de Leon, Rodolfo vs. Commission on Elections, et al.

RODOLFO DE LEON, petitioner, vs. THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, and CONRADO LINDO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-56968 | 1984-04-30

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J.:

An impressive number of cases from Venezuela v. Commission on Elections 1 dictates the outcome of this petition to review a decision of respondent Commission on Elections, dismissing a case for the disqualification of respondent Conrado Lindo to run as a candidate for municipal mayor of Ternate, Cavite in the 1980 Elections. Petitioner is the duly-elected mayor, performing his functions after being proclaimed. His undue insistence on the matter still being adjudged manifests a failure to abide by the generally accepted principle that a pre-proclamation controversy should be laid to rest, there being the...