Practice question
A councilor completes a third consecutive elected term with a short preventive suspension. Counsel invokes a broad proposition that any inability to render complete actual service makes the term nonconsecutive. No loss of title occurred. Which is correct?
- The proposition confuses interruption of functions with interruption of the term under Aldovino
- Every lost workday erases the term
- A complaint automatically constitutes loss of title
- Only the number of press statements matters
- The Constitution measures continuity solely by daily attendance
Legal references
- Aldovino v. COMELEC, G.R. No. 184836, December 23, 2009, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2009/dec2009/gr_184836_2009.html; main decision on retained title and interruption.
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article X Section 8.
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