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DARYL GRACE J. ABAYON v. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL

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	GR No. 205505 2015-09-29	ATTY. ISIDRO Q. LICO v. COMELEC EN BANC SERENO, C.J.
This is not the first time that this Court has passed upon the issue of HRET jurisdiction over the requirements for bona fide membership in a party-list organization. In Abayon v. HRET,[40] it was argued that the petitioners did not belong to the marginalized and under-represented sectors that they should represent; as such, they could not be properly considered bona fide members of their respective party-list organizations. The Court held that it was for the HRET to interpret the meaning of the requirement of bona fide membership in a party-list organization. It reasoned that under Section 17, Article VI of the Constitution, the HRET is the sole judge of all contests when it comes to qualifications of the members of the House of Representatives.[41]
	GR No. 193256 2011-03-22	ABC PARTY LIST v. COMELEC PERALTA, J.
In the case of the party-list nominees/representatives, it is the HRET that has jurisdiction over contests relating to their qualifications. Although it is the party-list organization that is voted for in the elections, it is not the organization that sits as and becomes a member of the House of Representatives,[21] but it is the party-list nominee/representative who sits as a member of the House of Representatives.
	GR No. 191998 2010-12-07	WALDEN F. BELLO v. COMELEC BRION, J.
We move on to the principal issue raised by the certiorari petitions in G.R. Nos. 192769 and 192832 - whether jurisdiction over Arroyo's qualifications as AGPP nominee should now properly be with the HRET since Arroyo has been proclaimed and has assumed office as Member of the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal,[48] the Court said: This issue is far from novel and is an issue previously ruled upon by this Court. The consistent judicial holding is that the HRET has jurisdiction to pass upon the qualifications of party-list nominees after their proclamation and assumption of office; they are, for all intents and purposes, "elected members" of the House of Representatives although the entity directly voted upon was their party. In Abayon v. House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal, the Court said: