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Legaspi vs. Commission on Election etc. [RESOLUTION]

FELICIANO LEGASPI, PETITIONER, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, ALFREDO D. GERMAR, AND ROGELIO P. SANTOS, JR., RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 216572 | 2016-04-19

R E S O L U T I O N
 
VELASCO JR., J.:
 
The opportunities for the Court to revisit its ruling in Mendoza vs. COMELEC[1] (Mendoza) are sparse. It is a rarity for us to be presented a case assailing the COMELEC en banc's reversal of its division's ruling notwithstanding the former's failure to muster the four (4) votes required under our Constitution to do so. In fact, the September 1, 2015 Decision in the case at bench is only second to the seminal case of Mendoza to have resolved such an issue. The Court must, therefore, take advantage of this rare opportunity, on reconsideration, to...