Practice question
During a valid acting period, an Acting President properly appoints an official to an executive office. The elected President reassumes office 130 days after that appointment and revokes it forty-five days after reassumption, invoking Section 14. The appointee argues only that more than ninety days elapsed since the original appointment. Assume all other requirements are satisfied. Which answer applies the correct constitutional starting point?
- The appointee is correct because the appointment date always starts the Section 14 period.
- The appointment was automatically void on its ninetieth day.
- The elected President has only ten days after reassumption.
- The appointment date and reassumption date must be averaged.
- The objection fails because Section 14 measures ninety days from the elected President's assumption or reassumption, not from the original appointment.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Sections 14–15: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353
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