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Sanidad vs. Commission on Election (Comelec) [DECISION]

PABLO C. SANIDAD AND PABLITO V. SANIDAD, PETITIONERS, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, RESPONDENT. [G.R. NO. L-44684. OCTOBER 12, 1976] VICENTE M. GUZMAN, PETITIONER, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, RESPONDENT. [G.R. NO. L-44714. OCTOBER 12, 1976] RAUL M. GONZALES, RAUL T. GONZALES, JR., AND ALFREDO SALAPANTAN, PETITIONERS, VS. HONORABLE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS AND HONORABLE NATIONAL TREASURER, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. L-44640 | 1976-10-12

D E C I S I O N
 
 
MARTIN, J.:
 
The capital question raised in these prohibition suits with preliminary injunction relates to the power of the incumbent President of the Philippines to propose amend­ments to the present Constitution in the absence of the interim National Assembly which has not been convened.
 
On September 2, 1976, President Ferdinand E. Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 991 calling for a national referendum on October 16, 1976 for the Citizens Assemblies ("barangays") to resolve, among other things, the issues of martial law, the interim assembly, its replacement, the powers of such...