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630 Supreme Court Reports Annotated: Mercado vs. Manzano
630 Supreme Court Reports Annotated: Mercado vs. Manzano
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MENDOZA, J.:
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1 Petition, Rollo, p. 5.
2 Per Commissioner Amado M. Calderon and concurred in by
Commissioners Julio F. Desamito and Japal M. Guiani.
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ers tabulated the votes cast for vice mayor of Makati City
but suspended the proclamation of the winner.
On May 19, 1998, petitioner
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sought to intervene in the
case for disqualification. PetitionerÊs motion was opposed
by private respondent.
The motion was not resolved. Instead, on August 31,
1998, the COMELEC enbanc rendered its resolution.
Voting 4 to 1, with one commissioner abstaining, the
COMELEC enbanc reversed the ruling of its Second
Division and declared private respondent qualified to run
for vice mayor
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of the City of Makati in the May 11, 1998
elections. The pertinent portions of the resolution of the
COMELEC enbanc read:
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8 R.A. No. 7854, the Charter of the City of Makati, provides: „SEC. 20
·The following are disqualified from running for any elective position in
the city: . . . (d) Those with dual citizenship.‰
9 JOVITO R. SALONGA, PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 166
(1995).
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13 Transcript, pp. 5-6, Session of Nov. 27, 1990.
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14 C.A. No. 473, §12.
15 86 Phil. 340, 343 (1950).
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„By the laws of the United States, petitioner Frivaldo lost his American
citizenship when he took his oath of allegiance to the Philippine
Government when he ran for Governor in 1988, in 1992, and in 1995.
Every certificate of candidacy contains an oath of allegiance to the
Philippine Government.‰
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18 185 SCRA 703, 711 (1990). See also Kawakita v. United States, 343
U.S. 717, 96 L. Ed. 1249 (1952).
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Petition dismissed.