Practice question
Both the President and Vice-President validly leave office seventeen months before the next presidential election. May Congress call the special election described in Article VII, Section 10 merely because both offices are vacant? Explain the timing restriction.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Sections 8–10, particularly Section 10’s congressional special-election procedure: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Sections 8 and 10.
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