Gentleman:

Quoted hereunder, for your information, is a resolution of this Court dated FEB 18 2003.

G.R. No. 147589 (Ang Bagong Bayani-OFW Labor Party (under the Acronym OFW), represented herein by its secretary general, Mohamad Omar Fajardo vs. Commission on Elections, et al.)

G.R. No. 147613 (Bayan Muna vs. Commission on Elections, et al.)

Acting on the many motions for proclamation filed by various party-list participants, the Court RESOLVED to require the parties, including the Office of the Solicitor General, to file their respective POSITION PAPERS within a non-extendible period of seven (7) days from notice on the question of whether the votes cast for parties / organizations which were subsequently disqualified for having failed to meet the eight-point guidelines contained in our June 26, 2001 Decision should be deducted in the determination of the “total votes cast for the party-list system” during the last elections. Otherwise stated, should the “total votes cast” be reduced from 14,940,003 to 6,851,972 and thereby result in the proclamation of additional party-list winners like AMIN, ABA, COCOFED, NCIA, PM and SANLAKAS, as claimed by Comelec in its “revised” Canvas Report No. 26. Specifically, the parties are DIRECTED to discuss whether Labo vs. Comelec, GR No. 105111 and 105384, July 3, 1992, Grego vs. Comelec, GR No. 125955, June 19, 1997 and related cases should be deemed applicable in the determination of the winners in the party-list elections.

Ynares-Santiago, J., on leave.

Very truly yours,

LUZVIMINDA D. PUNO

Clerk of Court

By:

(Sgd.) MA. LUISA D. VILLARAMA

Assistant Clerk of Court