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A. A. Arbonida vs. COMELEC, et al.

ANTENOR A. ARBONIDA, Petitioner, versus COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and ROMEO C. CARINGAL, Respondents.

G.R. No. 167137 | 2007-03-14

DECISION
 


QUISUMBING, J.:

This special civil action for certiorari filed by petitioner Antenor A. Arbonida assails the Resolution[1] dated November 18, 2004 of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in SPC No. 04-274. In its resolution, the COMELEC had annulled the proclamation of Arbonida as municipal councilor of Tanza, Cavite and instead, ordered the proclamation of private respondent Romeo C. Caringal as the duly elected eighth municipal councilor.

The Resolution was later affirmed by the COMELEC en banc in another Resolution[2] dated February 23, 2005, also herein assailed.

Arbonida prays that the questioned COMELEC resolutions be...