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Manuel I. Santos vs. Commission on Elections, et al.

MANUEL I. SANTOS, petitioner, vs. THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and RICARDO J. RUFINO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-58512 | 1985-07-23

D E C I S I O N


CUEVAS, J.:

Assailed and challenged in this special civil action of CERTIORARI and MANDAMUS, for allegedly having been issued without jurisdiction and - or with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of jurisdiction, is the Resolution of the respondent Commission on Elections (COMELEC) dated October 3, 1981, issued in PDC No. 66 and PPC No. 379, the dispositive portion of which reads as follows -

"Considering that after declaring all the votes received by respondent Manuel I. Santos as stray votes and therefore should not be counted, Ricardo J. Rufino should be proclaimed as duly elected Mayor for having obtained...