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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1667
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1667 -
AMENDING Section 1 OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1661, AS AMENDED,
ENTITLED: "PROHIBITING GUEST CANDIDACY AND PROVIDING SANCTIONS AND
PENALTY THEREFOR"
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WHEREAS,
there are quite a number of cases for disqualification of candidates in
the forthcoming local elections on January 30, 1980, that had reached
the COMELEC and the courts of justice on the ground of violation of
Article XII Section 190, of the Constitution which provides as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 10. No elective public officer may change his
political party affiliation during his term of office, and no candidate
for any elective public office may change his political party
affiliation within six months immediately preceding or following an
election."
WHEREAS, some of these cases depend upon the resolution of the issue
concerning the party affiliation of the candidates involved in the
controversy;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it is presumed that all persons who participated in the
campaign either as officers or as members of various political parties
that fielded candidates in the 1978 elections for members of the
Interim Batasang Pambansa were members of the parties for which they
campaigned; and
WHEREAS, in said campaign for the April 1978 elections, the following
political parties fielded candidates: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
1. BAGONG ANYO NG BUHAY PARTY (BANYUHAY)
2. BAGONG LIPUNAN KILUSAN NG NAGKAKAISANG
NACIONALISTA-LIBERAL
3. BISOL-SARO
4. CITIZENS UNION FOR PROGRESS
5. CONCERNED CITIZENS AGGRUPATION
6. CONFEDERATION OF ILOCANO ASSO., INC.
7. CONSUMERS PARTY
8. EMANCIPATED SCIENTISTS PARTY (ESP) OR SCIENTIFIC
PARTY
9. LAKAS NG BAYAN (LABAN)
10. LAPIANG BAGONG SILANG
11. MINDANAO ALLIANCE (PUNDOK MINDANAO)
12. PARTIDO DEMOCRATA (ANG BAG-ONG KUSOG)
13. PARTIDO NG BAGONG FILIPINO (PBF)
14. PARTIDO SAMBAYANANG PILIPINO
15. PHILIPPINE LABOR PARTY
16. PUSYON BISAYA (YOUNG TURKS)
17. SOVEREIGN CITIZENS PARTY
18. YOUNG PHILIPPINES PARTY
19. YOUTH DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT
20. LIBERAL PARTY
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. Section 1 of Presidential Decree No. 1661
as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 1. Guest Candidacy. — It shall be unlawful for
any registered or accredited political party to nominate and/or support
as its official candidate any person belonging to another accredited or
registered party unless he has affiliated with the nominating party
unless he has affiliated with the nominating party at least six months
before the election: Provided, that a person who participated as an
officer in the campaign of a political party, group or aggrupation in
the immediately preceding elections shall be deemed a member of such
party as of the date of the political campaign, for purposes of
nomination as official candidate of such party in succeeding
elections." chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 26th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty.
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