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People vs. Mariano Marcos

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIANO R. MARCOS ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 47388 | 1940-10-22

D E C I S I O N

LAUREL, J:

In the elections of 1934 in which Mariano Marcos and Julio Nalundasan, both of Batac, Ilocos Norte, were rival candidates for the office of representative for the second district of said province, Nalundasan was elected. The term for which the latter was elected was, however, cut short as a result of the approval of the Constitution of the Philippines under which the general elections for members of the National Assembly were by law set for September 17, 1935. In these general elections Julio Nalundasan and Mariano Marcos resumed their political rivalry and were opposing candidates for assemblyman in the same...