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Pantaleon Pacis vs. Commission On Elections, Et Al.

PANTALEON PACIS, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, ATANACIO NEGRE and ATANACIO RAMIRO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-28455 | 1968-02-10

D E C I S I O N 


SANCHEZ, J.: 

Once again, this Court is faced with the recurring problem of "grab-the-proclamation," and let the victimized candidate face the hurdle of a long drawn expensive election protest which may prove insuperable, if not useless. For, one set of board of canvassers had, on November 18, 1967 - ratified by the same board on November 23 - proclaimed Pantaleon Pacis, Mayor-elect of the municipality of Sanchez Mira, Cagayan. Then on December 28, 1967, another board of canvassers, upon authority of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), subsequently proclaimed Atanacio Negre, the opposing candidate, Mayor-elect....