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Javier Zacate vs COMELEC and Thelma Baldado

JAVIER E. ZACATE, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and THELMA C. BALDADO, respondents.

G.R. No. 144678 | 2001-03-01

D E C I S I O N

GONZAGA-REYES, J.:

Before us is a petition for certiorari filed pursuant to Section 3, Rule 64 of the 1997 Rules of Court in relation to Section 13 (a) of COMELEC Rule 18.

The antecedents are:

Petitioner Javier E. Zacate (petitioner) and private respondent Thelma C. Baldado (private respondent) were candidates for the position of Mayor in the Municipality of Sulat, Eastern Samar, in the May, 1998 elections.

The Municipal Board of Canvassers proclaimed private respondent as the duly elected mayor having garnered two thousand nine hundred fifty-eight (2,958) votes as against the two thousand seven hundred nineteen...