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Agapito A. Aquino vs. Commission On Elections (COMELEC) [SEPARATE OPINION, VITUG, J.]

AGAPITO A. AQUINO, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, MOVE MAKATI, MATEO BEDON and JUANITO ICARO, respondents.

G.R. No. 120265 | 1995-09-18

VITUG, J., separate opinion: 

I find what I would consider as the relevant issues in this petition as similar in almost all material respects to those obtaining in G.R. No. 119976 (Imelda Romualdez-Marcos vs. Commission on Elections and Cirilo Roy Montejo). Let me then here just reiterate what I have there said in my separate opinion. 

The case at bench deals with explicit Constitutional mandates. 

The Constitution is not a pliable instrument. It is a bedrock in our legal system that sets up ideals and directions and render steady our strides hence. It only looks back so as to ensure that mistakes in the past are not repeated....