Practice question
A recall petition is validly initiated and verified. Organizers immediately declare the incumbent removed before any recall election or proclamation, claiming sufficient signatures themselves select a successor. Which is best?
- Signatures automatically install the organizer
- Initiation does not itself remove the official; Section 72 requires the election and proclamation of the qualifying successor
- Verification is a criminal conviction
- The incumbent may never receive votes
- A private meeting replaces the election
Legal references
- RA 9244 Sections 1-3, amending LGC Sections 70-71: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2004/ra_9244_2004.html
- RA 7160 Sections 69 and 72-74: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html
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