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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Three-Term Limit Not Interrupted by Preventive Suspension

By Anna Katrina M. MartinezThe preventive suspension of public officials does not interrupt their term for purposes of the three-term limit rule under the Constitution and the Local Government Code (RA 7160).Thus held the Supreme Court in a 20-page En Banc decision penned by Justice Arturo D. Brion....