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Issue:
Whether the COMELEC may be directed, through mandamus, to hold a registration of new voters
for the 14 May 2001 General Elections on 17-18 February 2001
Held:
No. In a representative democracy, the right of suffrage, although accorded a prime niche in the hierarchy of rights
embodied in the fundamental law, ought to be exercised within the proper bounds and framework of the Constitution
and must properly yield to pertinent laws skillfully enacted by the Legislature, which statutes for all intents and
purposes, are crafted to effectively insulate such so cherished right from ravishment and preserve the democratic
institutions our people have, for so long, guarded against the