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Norodin M. Matalam vs. Commission on Elections, et al.

NORODIN M. MATALAM, petitioner vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and ZACARIA A. CANDAO, respondents.

G.R. No. 123230 | 1997-04-18

D E C I S I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:

Law and jurisprudence mandate that pre-proclamation controversies should be resolved in summary proceedings; thus, the Comelec and the Boards of Canvassers, in resolving these disputes, need not look beyond the face of the election returns. So too, petitioner must show that the exclusion of the contested returns will materially change the standing of the aggrieved parties. In the case at bench, the Court affirms once again these well-entrenched doctrines in our legal system.

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