Practice question
A candidate’s original COC is withdrawn with COMELEC approval. Before a pending qualifications dispute is finally resolved, the candidate files a new substitute COC and continues seeking the same office. The evidence concerns the same alleged lack of required local residence. Relying on Limbona’s procedural holding, which is correct?
- Approval of withdrawal necessarily resolves residence favorably.
- A useful merits ruling can remain necessary because the second filing puts qualifications in issue again.
- The new COC necessarily changes the candidate’s domicile.
- The original filing never produced any legal effect.
- Every withdrawal bars the commission from reading prior evidence.
Legal references
- Limbona v. COMELEC, G.R. No. 181097, June 25, 2008, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/45452
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