Practice question
The Commission on Appointments has not acted and Congress has not yet reached the next adjournment. A valid ad interim appointee is told that silence alone immediately extinguished the appointment. No disapproval or other lawful terminating event is shown. Which answer is best?
- Any day of silence automatically terminates the appointment.
- The appointee must obtain a new appointment every morning.
- The stipulated silence alone is not either constitutional terminating event.
- Only a city mayor may decide whether it continues.
- Silence converts it into lifetime tenure.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VII, Section 16.
- Matibag v. Benipayo, G.R. No. 149036, April 2, 2002, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2002/apr2002/gr_149036_2002.html
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