Practice question
A mayor has been elected to and fully served three consecutive terms in the same position except for a voluntary resignation during the final two weeks. He immediately seeks another consecutive term, arguing the short self-created gap is equivalent to Abundo's prolonged involuntary exclusion while a rival occupied office. Which is best?
- Every gap has identical legal effect
- The analogy fails: voluntary renunciation is expressly excluded as an interruption, unlike Abundo's material facts
- A two-week resignation automatically makes the official a first-term candidate
- Abundo abolishes the constitutional limit
- The election officer may ignore the Constitution
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article X Section 8: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Abundo v. COMELEC, GR 201716, January 8, 2013, main opinion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2013/jan2013/gr_201716_2013.html
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