Practice question
A party-list group is validly registered. It later advocates unlawful means to achieve its goals. It argues that original registration gives permanent immunity from cancellation. What is correct?
- Registration permanently repeals all later statutory grounds.
- Registration does not eliminate later cancellation grounds, which must be established through the prescribed process.
- Only the group's members can ever question compliance.
- COMELEC may cancel without notice whenever registration is old.
- The original certificate conclusively proves every future act lawful.
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 7941, sections 5–6, https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1995/ra_7941_1995.html
- COMELEC Resolution No. 11204, March 11, 2026, sections 2, 15 and cancellation provisions, https://www.comelec.gov.ph/php-tpls-attachments/2028NLE/Resolutions/res11204/com_res_11204.pdf
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