Practice question
COMELEC receives a verified party-list registration petition with the listed attachments. An officer proposes approving it privately without the Section5 publication or due notice and hearing, because all organizers agree. Which is best?
- Organizers can waive every public statutory safeguard
- The officer can replace publication with a private handshake
- The statutory publication and due notice-and-hearing requirements remain
- A verified petition itself is automatically the approval
- Every registration petition must instead be decided by an employer
Legal references
- RA 7941: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1995/ra_7941_1995.html; Sections 5, 6(6)-(7).
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