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Tomas Banaga Jr vs COMELEC & Florencio Bernabe, Jr.

TOMAS T. BANAGA, JR., petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and FLORENCIO M. BERNABE, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 134696 | 2000-07-31

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This special civil action for certiorari seeks to annul the en banc resolution of public respondent Commission on Elections promulgated on June 29, 1998, in a COMELEC special action case, SPA No. 98-383.

The factual antecedents of this case are as follows:

Petitioner and private respondent were the candidates for vice-mayor of the City of Parañaque in the May 11, 1998 election. On May 19, 1998, the city board of canvassers proclaimed private respondent, Florencio M. Bernabe, Jr., the winner for having garnered a total of Seventy One Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Seven (71,977) votes of the total...