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2001-10-11 |
SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J. |
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| In its comment, the COMELEC asserts that it issued the assailed Resolutions "in deference to the final (November 8, 1989) Decision of this Honorable Court in the case of `Province of Camarines Norte vs. Province of Quezon' (in G.R. No. 80796), and only after the issue of the land boundary dispute between the two provinces had been settled therein."[32] It further claims that the issuance of the challenged Resolutions was to enforce the 1989 SC Decision as directed by this Court in a subsequent En Banc Resolution dated August 4, 1994 in the same G.R. No. 80796, thus: "The Court takes this occasion to stress that the Province of Quezon and Governor Eduardo Rodriguez are bound by the said final decision of this Court and that the boundary dispute there resolved is no longer a dispute and that all the attendant legal issues have been resolved with finality. That decision of this Court constitutes res adjudicata in respect of all offices and agencies of the Executive Department. Accordingly, the province of Camarines Norte is entitled, not to a `status quo prior to the controversy,' but rather to the prompt enforcement of the decision of this Court."[33] (Emphasis ours) | |||||