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NICKNAMES IN CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDACY USE OF NICKNAMES IN CERTICATE S OF CANDIDACY – Even if petitioner decided to use “JTV” as her nickname for purposes of the 11 May 1998 elections, one must never forget that she never used it as a nickname before she filed her certificate of candidacy. The nickname which the second paragraph of Section 74 of the Omnibus Election Code allows to be included in the certificate of candidacy is that by which [the candidate ] is “generally or popularly known”. This clearly means the nickname “by which one has been generally or popularly known before the filing of the certificate of candidacy, but not what the candidate wants to thereafter use. By her own statement under oath in her affidavit, petitioner solemnly declared that she was generally and popularly known in every barangay in Oriental Mindoro as “Girlie” before and after she filed her certificate of candidacy. En Banc, Chief Justice Davide, Jr., Villarosa v. House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal, G.R. No. 143351, September 14, 2001
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CCHOPE ELECTION
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