Practice question
An aspirant seeks a district House seat and is a qualified voter elsewhere but not in the district. The aspirant invokes the party-list exception although running for the district seat. All other facts are undisputed. Which is best?
- The exception applies to every House aspirant
- The district candidate must meet the district voter and residence requirements; the party-list exception cannot simply be borrowed
- Only national voter registration ever matters
- A district nomination erases the Constitution
- A district candidate may select another constituency's voter status
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article V, Section 1; Article VI, Sections 3 and 6; Article VII, Section 2: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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