Practice question
A covered appointive agency officer files a COC well before the official campaign period. The officer invokes the statutory provision that candidacy-related unlawful acts attach at the campaign period's start and argues that it also postpones the separate automatic-resignation rule until then. Which reading follows the statute upheld in Quinto?
- The separate proviso expressly makes the covered appointive official's resignation effective at the start of the COC-filing day.
- The campaign-period proviso repeals the express filing-day resignation rule silently.
- All election-law consequences must occur only on election day.
- The officer may choose any resignation date after seeing survey results.
- The officer can permanently occupy both offices by declining to campaign.
Legal references
- Quinto v. COMELEC, G.R. No. 189698, February 22, 2010, main resolution on reconsideration: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2010/feb2010/gr_189698_2010.html
- RA 9369, Section 13 amending RA 8436 Section 11: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2007/ra_9369_2007.html
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