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Manuel I. Santos vs COMELEC, et al [DISSENTING OPINION, TEEHANKEE, J.]

MANUEL I. SANTOS, petitioner vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, RICARDO NAVAL and JUANITO P. FRANCISCO, respondents. [DISSENTING OPINION, TEEHANKEE, J.]

G.R. No. L-52390 | 1981-03-31

Separate Opinions

TEEHANKEE, J., dissenting:

I dissent from the majority decision dismissing the petition of petitioner Manuel I. Santos who was duly elected and proclaimed as mayor of the municipality of Taytay, Rizal at the local election of January 30, 1980 with an overwhelming plurality of 4,326 votes against his KBL opponent Ricardo J. Rufino (with a total of 15,463 votes against his opponent's 11,137 votes) and has duly assumed the said office to which he was elected since then to the present, and upholding the questioned Comelec resolution which would disqualify him on grounds of alleged turncoatism.

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