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Ernesto Domingo vs COMELEC, Benjamin"Benhur" Abalos

ERNESTO "BIBOT" A. DOMINGO, JR., petitioner, vs COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and BENJAMIN "BENHUR" D ABALOS, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 136587 | 1999-08-30

D E C I S I O N


GONZAGA-REYES, J.:

Assailed in this special civil action for certiorari are the En Banc Resolution of the Commission on Elections ("COMELEC"), dated December 1, 1998,1 [Penned by Commissioner Julio F. Desamito.] and the Resolution of the COMELEC First Division, dated July 2, 1998,2 [Penned by Commissioner Teresita Dy-Liacco Flores.] in SPA No. 98-361, which dismissed, for lack of merit, the petition for disqualification filed against herein private respondent, the incumbent mayor of Mandaluyong City.

In the May 11, 1998 elections, petitioner Ernesto Domingo, Jr. and private respondent Benjamin Abalos, Jr. were both...