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Practice question: Qualifications, Nomination, and Substitution of Party-List Nominees and Representatives

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

After submitting its list, a party decides a lower-ranked nominee is more popular. No nominee has died, become incapacitated or validly withdrawn. It proposes a private agreement reordering the names and calls it substitution. Which is best?
  1. Popularity automatically permits reordering
  2. Every private agreement overrides the list
  3. The label substitution controls
  4. The facts do not establish a permitted ground for alteration
  5. Preference changes automatically void the list

Legal references

  • CR 11204 Section 53: https://www.comelec.gov.ph/php-tpls-attachments/2028NLE/Resolutions/res11204/com_res_11204.pdf

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