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Hadji Hussein Mohammad vs COMELEC and Abdulajid Estino

HADJI HUSSEIN MOHAMMAD, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and ABDULAJID ESTINO, respondents.

G.R. No. 136384 | 1999-12-08

D E C I S I O N

PURISIMA, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari under Rules 64 and 65 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure assailing the Resolutions dated October 27, 1998 and December 8, 1998, respectively, of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in Election Protest Case (EPC) No. 96-2.

The facts that matter are as follows:

The petitioner and the private respondent were among the candidates during the September 9, 1996 elections for the Regional Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao ("ARMM") representing the Second District of the Province of Sulu.

On September 10, 1996, petitioner was proclaimed as the...