Back

Wilmer Grego vs. Comelec, et al. 274 SCRA 48

WILMER GREGO, petitioner vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and HUMBERTO BASCO, respondents.

G.R. No. 125955 | 1997-06-19

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

The instant special civil action for certiorari and prohibition impugns the resolution of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) en banc in SPA No. 95-212 dated July 31, 1996, dismissing petitioner's motion for reconsideration of an earlier resolution rendered by the COMELEC's First Division on October 6, 1995, which also dismissed the petition for disqualification 1 filed by petitioner Wilmer Grego against private respondent Humberto Basco.

The essential and undisputed factual antecedents of the case are as follows:

On October 31, 1981, Basco was removed from his position as Deputy Sheriff by no less than this Court...