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Marcoleta vs. COMELEC

RODANTE MARCOLETA, SERGIO MANZANA, RENATO CABLING AND MIGUELITO BAJAS, PETITIONERS, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS AND DIOGENES OSABEL, RESPONDENTS. [G.R. NO. 181726] ALAGAD PARTY-LIST, REPRESENTED BY DIOGENES S. OSABEL, PRESIDENT, PETITIONER, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, ALBERTO M. MALVAR, RODANTE D. MARCOLETA, SERGIO C. MANZANA, RENATO S. CABLING AND MIGUELITO C. BAJAS, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 181377 | 2009-04-24

D E C I S I O N
 
CARPIO MORALES, J.:
 
When the party-list group Alagad first won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1998, Diogenes S. Osabel (Osabel) sat as the party's representative in Congress. In 2004, when the party again won one seat, Rodante D. Marcoleta (Marcoleta) sat as Alagad's representative.

Due to infighting within Alagad's ranks, however, Osabel and Marcoleta parted ways, each one claiming to represent the party's constituency. For the 2007 National and Local Elections, the warring factions of Osabel and Marcoleta each filed a separate list of nominees for Alagad at...