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Caasi vs. Court of Appeals and Cascante vs. Comelec

MATEO CAASI, petitioner vs. COURT OF APPEALS and MERITO C. MIGUEL, respondents. ANECITO CASCANTE, petitioner, vs. THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and MERITO C. MIGUEL, respondents.

G.R. No. 88831 and G.R. No. 84508 | 1990-11-08

D E C I S I O N 

GRINO-AQUINO, J.: 

These two cases were consolidated because they have the same objective; the disqualification under Section 68 of the Omnibus Election Code of the private respondent, Merito Miguel, for the position of municipal mayor of Bolinao, Pangasinan, to which he was elected in the local elections of January 18, 1988, on the ground that he is a green card holder, hence, a permanent resident of the United States of America, not of Bolinao. 

G.R. No. 84508 is a petition for review on certiorari of the decision dated January 13, 1988 of the COMELEC First Division, dismissing the three (3) petitions of...