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	GR No. 201716 2013-01-08	MAYOR ABELARDO ABUNDO v. COMELEC VELASCO JR., J.
With reference to the effects of recall election on the continuity of service, Adormeo v. Commission on Elections[40] (2002) and the aforementioned case of Socrates (2002) provide guidance.
	GR No. 184836 2009-12-23	SIMON B. ALDOVINO v. COMELEC BRION, J.
[23] G.R No. 147927, 4 February 2002, 376 SCRA 90.
	GR No. 167591 2007-05-09	ATTY. VENANCIO Q. RIVERA III v. COMELEC SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.
Similarly, in Adormeo v. COMELEC,[5] this Court ruled that assumption of the office of mayor in a recall election for the remaining term is not the "term" contemplated under Section 8, Article X of the Constitution and Section 43 (b) of R.A. No. 7160 (the Local Government Code). As the Court observed, there was a "break" in the service of private respondent Ramon T. Talanga as mayor. He was a "private citizen" for a time before running for mayor in the recall elections.
	GR No. 154512 2002-11-12	VICTORINO DENNIS M. SOCRATES v. COMELEC CARPIO, J.
years. The clear intent is that interruption "for any length of time," as long as the cause is involuntary, is sufficient to break an elective local official's continuity of service. In the recent case of Adormeo v. Comelec and Talaga,[18] a unanimous Court reiterated the rule that an interruption consisting of a portion of a term of office breaks the continuity of service of an elective local official. In Adormeo, Ramon Y.