Practice question
A person timely files a COC and receives an acknowledgment. The person argues that this receipt conclusively settles a rival's properly filed material-misrepresentation petition. Is the argument correct?
- Yes, receipt automatically validates every factual statement.
- No; ministerial receipt does not bar the statutory process for challenging material false representations.
- Yes, because only winning candidates may be challenged.
- Yes, because sworn statements are legally incapable of being false.
- No; because no COC can ever be received.
Legal references
- BP 881, Sections 76 and 78: https://lawphil.net/statutes/bataspam/bp1985/bp_881_1985.html
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