Practice question
Both the President and Vice-President validly leave office twenty months before the next presidential election. Congress convenes as required and calls a special election, but schedules it ninety days after the call to allow more campaigning. It says the election is valid because the vacancy is outside the eighteen-month prohibition. Which answer is best?
- The schedule is valid because being outside eighteen months removes all other timing rules.
- The schedule violates the separate requirement that the election be held forty-five to sixty days from the call.
- The schedule is valid if every political party agrees.
- The schedule is invalid only if it falls after the next regular election.
- The schedule is valid because ninety days is the constitutional maximum.
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; Section 10.
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