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Vera vs. Avelino 77 Phil 192

JOSE O. VERA, ET AL., petitioners vs. JOSE A. AVELINO, ET AL., respondents.

G.R. No. L-543 | 1946-08-31

EN BANC

D E C I S I O N 

BENGZON, J: 

Pursuant to a constitutional provision (section 4, Article X), the Commission on Elections submitted, last May, to the President and the Congress of the Philippines, its report on the national elections held the preceding month, and, among other things, stated that, by reason of certain specified acts of terrorism and violence in the Provinces of Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Bulacan and Tarlac, the voting in said region did not reflect the true and free expression of the popular will. 

When the Senate convened on May 25, 1946, it proceeded with the selection of its officers. Thereafter, in the...