Practice question
COA has two incumbent Members who are qualified CPAs and are not members of the Bar. A third candidate is also solely a CPA with fifteen years of auditing experience and otherwise meets the individual requirements. Officials say each candidate's qualifications alone suffice. What is the constitutional problem with completing the Commission this way?
- Every COA Member must be a lawyer and cannot be a CPA.
- No CPA may ever chair COA.
- Fifteen years is too much auditing experience.
- The composition would make all Members belong to the same profession, which the Constitution forbids.
- The candidate must first win a partisan election.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article IX D Section 1(1): https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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