Practice question
A mayor wins an election protest only after another person has occupied the mayoralty for almost two years of the disputed term. The protest winner then serves only the remaining portion, in circumstances materially matching Abundo. A challenger treats that term as fully served solely because the protest winner was the lawful election winner. Which is best?
- Legal election always proves full service
- Every protest automatically resets every future term
- Abundo requires examination of the involuntary deprivation and actual lack of full service, rather than the challenger's automatic equation
- A private agreement decides the constitutional count
- Any one-day absence has the same effect
Legal references
- Abundo v. COMELEC, GR 201716, January 8, 2013, main opinion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2013/jan2013/gr_201716_2013.html
- 1987 Constitution, Article X Section 8: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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