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2010-11-23 |
NACHURA, J. |
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| But even if his submission is valid, petitioner's standing is still imperiled by the white elephant in the petition, i.e., his appearance as counsel for former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (Macapagal-Arroyo) in the election protest filed by 2004 presidential candidate Fernando Poe, Jr. before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal,[13] because judicial inquiry, as mentioned above, requires that the constitutional question be raised at the earliest possible opportunity.[14] Such appearance as counsel before the Tribunal, to our mind, would have been the first opportunity to challenge the constitutionality of the Tribunal's constitution. | |||||