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(2) No. On the due process issue, petitioners right to due process was not violated for [it] was
given an opportunity to seek, as it did seek, a reconsideration of [COMELEC resolution]. The
essence of due process, consistently held, is simply the opportunity to be heard; as applied to
administrative proceedings, due process is the opportunity to explain ones side or the
opportunity to seek a reconsideration of the action or ruling complained of. A formal or trial-type
hearing is not at all times and in all instances essential. "The requirement is satisfied where the
parties are afforded fair and reasonable opportunity to explain their side of the controversy at
hand. What is frowned upon is absolute lack of notice and hearing" x x x. [It is] obvious [that]
under the attendant circumstances that PGBI was not denied due process.