QuestionsQuestions (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1667)
It amends the rule on “guest candidacy,” making it generally unlawful for one accredited/registered political party to nominate or support a candidate from another party unless the candidate affiliated with the nominating party at least six months before the election, with a specific deemed-membership rule for prior campaign participation.
It prohibits a registered or accredited political party from nominating and/or supporting as its official candidate any person belonging to another accredited or registered party unless the candidate affiliated with the nominating party at least six months before the election.
The candidate must have affiliated with the nominating party at least six months before the election to be eligible as the nominating party’s official candidate.
It provides that a person who participated as an officer in the campaign of a political party, group, or aggrupation in the immediately preceding elections is deemed a member of such party as of the date of the political campaign for purposes of nomination in succeeding elections.
The text specifies participation “as an officer” in the campaign of the political party, group, or aggrupation in the immediately preceding elections; mere participation (without being an officer) is not stated as enough.
The decree addresses pending disqualification cases that depend on party affiliation issues arising from alleged violations of Article XII, Section 10—specifically, restrictions on changing party affiliation within certain timeframes around elections.
It restricts (1) elective public officers from changing their political party affiliation during their term of office, and (2) candidates from changing party affiliation within six months immediately preceding or following an election.
It states that it is presumed that persons who participated in the campaign either as officers or members of various political parties that fielded candidates in the 1978 elections were members of the parties for which they campaigned.
Because some cases depended on resolving the issue of party affiliation of the candidates involved, particularly in relation to the constitutional party-affiliation restrictions.
It deems the person a member “as of the date of the political campaign” for purposes of nomination as official candidate in succeeding elections.
It primarily amends Section 1 of PD 1661 to update the guest candidacy rule, including the deemed membership proviso; it does not indicate a broader independent framework beyond the amended guest candidacy provision.
It restricts nomination and/or support by any “registered or accredited political party” as to its official candidate, in relation to a person belonging to another accredited/registered party.
That the candidate affiliated with the nominating party at least six months before the election, or that the candidate is covered by the deemed-membership proviso (i.e., participated as an officer in the campaign of the nominating party/group in the immediately preceding elections).
It takes effect immediately.
It references disqualification issues for local elections on January 30, 1980; it shows the decree was issued to guide resolution of party affiliation/guest candidacy issues during an imminent election period.
The list supports the factual premise behind the presumed party membership of campaign participants in those 1978 elections; academically, it illustrates how factual campaign participation ties into legal party-affiliation presumptions and the deemed-membership rule.