Practice question
In Albano, the government claimed that candidates who lost in the immediately preceding election could be barred as party-list nominees to prevent abuse of the system as a fallback. What did the main decision conclude about that losing-candidate distinction?
- It lacked a rational basis linking the selected losing-candidate category to the asserted abuse
- It was valid merely because a statute used the category
- It made every party-list qualification unconstitutional
- It required all district candidates to meet newly invented qualifications
- It was immune from equal-protection review
Legal references
- Albano v. COMELEC, G.R. No. 257610 and UDK No. 17230, January 24, 2023, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2023/jan2023/gr_257610_2023.html
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