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Bagumbayan-VNP Movement Inc., vs. COMELEC

BAGUMBAYAN-VNP MOVEMENT, INC., AND RICHARD J. GORDON, ON HIS BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF OTHER CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES SIMILARLY SITUATED, PETITIONERS, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, RESPONDENT. [G.R. No. 206784] TANGGULANG DEMOKRASYA (TAN DEM), INC., EVELYN L. KILAYKO, TERESITA D. BALTAZAR, PILAR L. CALDERON, ELITA T. MONTILLA, AND ANDREA H. CEDO, PETITIONERS, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, RESPONDENT. [G.R. No. 207755] BAGUMBAYAN-VNP MOVEMENT, INC., AND RICHARD J. GORDON, ON HIS BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF OTHER CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES SIMILARLY SITUATED, PETITIONERS, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS AND HON. SIXTO S. BRILLANTES, JR., RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 206719 | 2019-04-10

DECISION
 
REYES, A., JR., J.:
 
The Consolidated Case

Before this Court are three (3) separate petitions which this Court ordered consolidated in a Resolution[1] dated August 12, 2014.

In G.R. No. 206719, Bagumbayan-VNP Movement, Inc. (Bagumbayan) and Senator Richard J. Gordon (Senator Gordon) filed a Special Civil Action for Mandamus[2] lodged with the Court under Section 3, Rule 65 of the Rules of Court, for the purpose of compelling the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to comply with the provisions of Section 14 of Republic Act (R.A.) No. 8436,[3] as amended by R.A. No. 9369.[4]

The Court notes that a...