Practice question
A valid candidate properly withdraws and a lawful substitute is installed. The former candidate claims substitution cancels a previously incurred unrelated administrative liability. Which is correct?
- Every substitution is a statutory amnesty
- The substitute automatically assumes all personal wrongdoing
- The party can erase judicial judgments by nomination
- Only criminal liabilities survive withdrawal
- Section 73 preserves incurred liabilities despite withdrawal
Legal references
- BP 881: https://lawphil.net/statutes/bataspam/bp1985/bp_881_1985.html; Sections 73, 77.
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