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2007-06-08 |
NACHURA, J. |
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| While this Court does not contest the rulings cited by petitioner in Tatlonghari v. COMELEC,[25] Bince, Jr. v. COMELEC,[26] and Ramirez v. COMELEC[27] that a petition for correction of manifest errors may be filed even beyond the reglementary period of five (5) days following the date of proclamation pursuant to Section 5(b), Rule 27 of the 1993 COMELEC Rules of Procedure, and that the COMELEC has the power to annul the proclamation made on the basis of an erroneous tabulation of votes in the election returns or in the statement of votes, we agree with the COMELEC First Division and En Banc that the case of petitioner does not fall within the scope of the above-mentioned rulings. Indeed, even if the truly manifest errors were corrected using the data presented by petitioner herself, the proclamation of private respondent as the winning Vice-Mayoral candidate of Taytay, Rizal will still stand. | |||||