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    Miriam Defensor-Santiago filed an election protest after losing the 1992 Philippine presidential election. The Supreme Court considered whether the protest was moot since Defensor-Santiago was later elected as a Senator in 1995 and assumed office. The Court ruled the protest was abandoned and moot because Defensor-Santiago took her seat in the Senate and carried out the duties of a Senator, demonstrating she no longer wished to pursue the election protest but rather serve as a Senator. Dismissing the protest also enhanced political stability in the country.

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    Miriam Defensor-Santiago filed an election protest after losing the 1992 Philippine presidential election. The Supreme Court considered whether the protest was moot since Defensor-Santiago was later elected as a Senator in 1995 and assumed office. The Court ruled the protest was abandoned and moot because Defensor-Santiago took her seat in the Senate and carried out the duties of a Senator, demonstrating she no longer wished to pursue the election protest but rather serve as a Senator. Dismissing the protest also enhanced political stability in the country.

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    Miriam Defensor-Santiago filed an election protest after losing the 1992 Philippine presidential election. The Supreme Court considered whether the protest was moot since Defensor-Santiago was later elected as a Senator in 1995 and assumed office. The Court ruled the protest was abandoned and moot because Defensor-Santiago took her seat in the Senate and carried out the duties of a Senator, demonstrating she no longer wished to pursue the election protest but rather serve as a Senator. Dismissing the protest also enhanced political stability in the country.

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    Miriam Defensor-Santiago filed an election protest after losing the 1992 Philippine presidential election. The Supreme Court considered whether the protest was moot since Defensor-Santiago was later elected as a Senator in 1995 and assumed office. The Court ruled the protest was abandoned and moot because Defensor-Santiago took her seat in the Senate and carried out the duties of a Senator, demonstrating she no longer wished to pursue the election protest but rather serve as a Senator. Dismissing the protest also enhanced political stability in the country.

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    ELECTION LAW: MIRIAM DEFENSOR–SANTIAGO

    versus FIDEL RAMOS (253 SCRA 559)


    MIRIAM DEFENSOR – SANTIAGO versus FIDEL RAMOS (253 SCRA 559)

    Facts:
    The protestant, Miriam Defensor-Santiago ran for presidency and lost in the May 1992
    election. In her Motion on the 16th day of August in the year 1995, reiterated in her
    comment of the 29th of August of the same year, protestant Defensor-Santiago prayed
    that the revision in the remaining precincts of the pilot areas be dispensed with and
    the revision process in the pilot areas be deemed computed.

    The Court deferred action on the motion and required, instead, the protestant and
    protestee to submit their respective memoranda. Hence, this petition.

    Issue:
    Whether or not the election protest filed by Defensor-Santiago is moot and academic
    by her election as a Senator in the May 1995 election and her assumption of office as
    such on the 30th of June in the year 1995.

    Held:
    YES. The Court held that the election protest filed by Santiago has been abandoned or
    considered withdrawn as a consequence of her election and assumption of office as
    Senator and her discharge of the duties and functions thereof.

    The protestant abandoned her “determination to protest and pursue the public
    interest involved in the matter of who is the real choice of the electorate.

    Moreover, the dismissal of this protest would serve public interest as it would
    dissipate the aura of uncertainty as to the results of the 1992 presidential elections,
    thereby enhancing the all too crucial political stability of the nation during this period
    of national recovery.

    Also, the PET issued a resolution ordering the protestant to inform the PET within 10
    days if after the completion of the revision of the ballots from her pilot areas, she
    still wishes to present evidence. Since DS has not informed the Tribunal of any such
    intention, such is a manifest indication that she no longer intends to do so.

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