Philippine Supreme Court Resolutions > Year 2007 > March 2007 Resolutions > [G.R. No. 174992 and 175546 : March 13, 2007] THE LIBERAL PARTY, REPRESENTED BY ITS PRESIDENT, FRANKLIN M. DRILON VERSUS COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, ET AL.<BR><BR>[G.R. NO. 175546]<BR><BR>JOSE L. ATIENZA, ET AL. VERSUS THE HONORABLE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS AND FRANKLIN M. DRILON :

Quoted hereunder, for your information, is a resolution of the Court En Banc dated March 13, 2007.

G.R. No. 174992 - (THE LIBERAL PARTY, represented by its President, FRANKLIN M. DRILON versus COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, et al.)

G.R. No. 175546 - (JOSE L. ATIENZA, et al. versus THE HONORABLE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and FRANKLIN M. DRILON)

Acting on these consolidated petitions for certiorari and prohibition, the Court en banc, while sustaining the jurisdiction of the COMELEC over the leadership dispute within the Liberal Party by a vote of seven (7) as against six (6) of its members, resolved to remand the cases to the COMELEC en banc for it -

1. To receive further evidence on and resolve on the basis thereof the factual issue of whether or not the Daza/Drilon amendments to the LP (Salonga) Constitution have been duly ratified; and
2. To submit to the Court its report thereon within five (5) days from notice hereof.

The Court further Resolved to

(a) GRANT the Motion to Admit Memorandum dated February 22, 2007 filed by counsel for petitioner in G.R. No. 175546;

(b) NOTE the aforesaid Memorandum dated February 22, 2007; and

(c) NOTE the Comment on the Affidavits of Jovito R. Salonga, Raul A. Daza and Florencio B. Abad, dated March 12, 2007 filed by counsel for petitioners in G.R. No. 175546 in compliance with the resolution of March 6, 2007.  Callejo, Sr., J., on leave.