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Mayor Gamal S. Hayudini Vs. Commission on Elections and Mustapha J. Omar

MAYOR GAMAL S. HAYUDINI, Petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and MUSTAPHA J. OMAR, Respondents.

G.R. No. 207900 | 2014-04-22

EN BANC

 

DECISION


PERALTA, J.:

 

For the Court's resolution is a Petition for Certiorari and Prohibition1 under Rule 65, which petitioner Gamal S. Hayudini (Hayudini) filed to set  aside and annul the assailed Resolutions of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), dated June 20, 20132 and July 10, 2013,3 which cancelled his Certificate of Candidacy for the mayoralty seat in the 2013 local elections in South Ubian, Tawi-Tawi, for having been issued with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or in excess of jurisdiction.


The antecedent facts are:


On October 5, 2012, Hayudini filed his Certificate of...