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Practice question: Premature Campaigning

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A timely COC filer holds a peaceful promotional motorcade before the relevant campaign period. The sole asserted ground is the premature-campaigning prohibition addressed in Penera. No independent offense is alleged. Which is best?
  1. Filing alone automatically establishes that violation
  2. Penera's operative candidate-status interpretation defeats that sole ground on these facts
  3. Every motorcade is terrorism
  4. An opponent may move the period backward
  5. The filer is guilty of all contribution offenses

Legal references

  • Penera November 25, 2009: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2009/nov2009/gr_181613_2009.html

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