Nuisance Candidates

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1. Which situation is a statutory nuisance-candidacy ground under Section 69 when established through the proper proceedin…
2. How may a Section 69 nuisance-candidacy proceeding be initiated under the statutory text?
3. Under Mustapha, what evidentiary showing must COMELEC make when it initiates the Section 69 petition?
4. A senatorial aspirant is declared nuisance solely because she fails to prove financial capacity to sustain a nationwide…
5. Two bona fide candidates have similar surnames. The evidence establishes genuine efforts by each to run, and no deliber…
6. COMELEC's Law Department files a nuisance petition but presents only bare assertions that an aspirant is obscure and un…
7. A wealthy aspirant arranges a sham candidacy expressly to confuse voters through a near-identical candidate name. After…
8. Explain the statutory grounds for nuisance candidacy and the process and proof required when COMELEC itself initiates t…
9. An aspirant is declared nuisance solely for failure to prove sufficient campaign wealth. Explain Marquez's rule and whe…
10. Two aspirants have similar surnames. Explain why the tribunal must examine the evidence and statutory purpose rather th…
11. Under Mustapha, must COMELEC as tribunal independently consider the law and facts rather than simply adopt a subordinat…
12. Must a nuisance decision explain the issues and reasons sufficiently for the parties to understand it?