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    Facts:: MAYOR ABELARDO ABUNDO v. COMELEC, GR No. 201716, 2013-01-08

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    The Supreme Court ruled that Abelardo Abundo did not serve three consecutive terms as mayor, which would have disqualified him from running again due to term limits. While Abundo ran for mayor four times starting in 2001, in 2004 he was initially not proclaimed the winner and only assumed office in 2006 after winning an election protest. This meant he only served one year and one month of the 2004-2007 term, not the full three years. As such, Abundo's service was interrupted and he did not fully serve three consecutive terms as mayor, so he was eligible to run again in 2010.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that Abelardo Abundo did not serve three consecutive terms as mayor, which would have disqualified him from running again due to term limits. While Abundo ran for mayor four times starting in 2001, in 2004 he was initially not proclaimed the winner and only assumed office in 2006 after winning an election protest. This meant he only served one year and one month of the 2004-2007 term, not the full three years. As such, Abundo's service was interrupted and he did not fully serve three consecutive terms as mayor, so he was eligible to run again in 2010.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that Abelardo Abundo did not serve three consecutive terms as mayor, which would have disqualified him from running again due to term limits. While Abundo ran for mayor four times starting in 2001, in 2004 he was initially not proclaimed the winner and only assumed office in 2006 after winning an election protest. This meant he only served one year and one month of the 2004-2007 term, not the full three years. As such, Abundo's service was interrupted and he did not fully serve three consecutive terms as mayor, so he was eligible to run again in 2010.

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    MAYOR ABELARDO ABUNDO v. COMELEC, GR No.

    201716, 2013-01-08
    Facts:
    For four (4) successive regular elections, namely, the 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010 national
    and local elections, Abundo vied for the position of municipal mayor of Viga, Catanduanes.
    In the 2004 electoral derby, however, the Viga municipal board of canvassers initially
    proclaimed as winner one Jose Torres (Torres), who, in due time, performed the functions
    of the office of mayor.
    Abundo protested Torres' election and proclamation. Abundo was eventually declared the
    winner of the 2004 mayoralty electoral contest, paving the way for his assumption of office
    starting May 9, 2006 until the end of the 2004-2007 term on June 30, 2007, or for a period
    of a little over one year... and one month.
    Then came the May 10, 2010 elections where Abundo and Torres again opposed each
    other.
    When Abundo filed his certificate of candidacy... for the mayoralty seat
    Torres lost no time in seeking the former's disqualification... to run,... predicated on the
    three-consecutive term limit rule.
    On June 16, 2010,... COMELEC... issued a Resolution... finding for Abundo,... accordingly
    proclaimed 2010 mayor-elect of Viga... private respondent Ernesto R. Vega (Vega)
    commenced a quo warranto... action... to unseat Abundo on essentially the same grounds
    Torres raised in his petition to disqualify.
    Issues:
    The Commission En Banc committed grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess
    of jurisdiction when it declared that Abundo has consecutively served for three terms
    despite the fact that he only served the remaining one year and one month of the second...
    term as a result of an election protest.
    whether the service of a term less than the full three years by an elected official arising from
    his being declared as the duly elected official upon an election protest is considered as full
    service of the term for purposes of the... application of the three consecutive term limit for
    elective local officials.
    Ruling:
    The consecutiveness of what otherwise would have been Abundo's three successive,
    continuous mayorship was effectively broken during the 2004-2007 term when he was
    initially deprived of title to, and was veritably... disallowed to serve and occupy, an office to
    which he, after due proceedings, was eventually declared to have been the rightful choice of
    the electorate.
    To constitute a disqualification to run for an elective local office pursuant to the aforequoted
    constitutional and statutory provisions, the following requisites must concur:
    (1) that the official concerned has been elected for three consecutive terms in the same
    local government post; and
    (2) that he has fully served three consecutive terms.
    the Court finds Abundo's case meritorious and declares that the two-year period during
    which his opponent, Torres, was serving as mayor should be considered as an interruption,
    which effectively removed Abundo's case from the ambit of the three-term... limit rule.
    during the term 2004-2007, and with the enforcement of the decision of the election protest
    in his favor,... Abundo assumed the mayoralty post... for a period of a little over one year...
    and one month... it cannot be said that Mayor Abundo was able to serve fully the entire
    2004-2007 term to which he was otherwise entitled.
    In the present case, during the period of one year and ten months,... Abundo cannot
    plausibly claim, even if he wanted to, that he could hold office of the mayor as a matter of
    right. Neither can he assert title to the same nor... serve the functions of the said elective
    office.
    The reason is simple: during that period, title to hold such office and the corresponding right
    to assume the functions thereof still belonged to his opponent, as proclaimed election
    winner.
    Abundo cannot be said to have retained title to the mayoralty office as he was at that time
    not the duly proclaimed winner who would have the legal right to assume and serve such
    elective office. For... another, not having been declared winner yet, Abundo cannot be said
    to have lost title to the office since one cannot plausibly lose a title which, in the first place,
    he did not have. Thus, for all intents and purposes,... Abundo was not entitled to the elective
    office until the election protest was finally resolved in his favor.
    Consequently, there was a hiatus of almost two years, consisting of a break and effective
    interruption of his service, until he assumed the office and served barely over a year of the
    remaining term.
    Principles:

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