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2015-06-16 |
VILLARAMA, JR., J. |
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| In his Consolidated Comment,[13] the Solicitor General asserts that COMELEC faithfully adhered to the procedure prescribed in BANAT in the allocation of party-list seats (14 guaranteed seats were first allocated to those who obtained 2% of the total votes cast for party-list and thereafter 44 additional seats were completely distributed). It was explained that party-list groups with products of less than one were still allocated seats depending on their rank and availability of seats. As to the uncanvassed votes at the time, COMELEC had reserved five "buffer" seats to accommodate possible changes in the ranking. Three of these "buffer" seats were distributed to ANAC-IP, AGBIAG! and APPEND, while the other two seats were reserved pursuant to this Court's directive in Senior Citizen's Party-List v. COMELEC[14]. | |||||