Pimentel v. Zubiri

Pimentel v. Zubiri
Court	Senate Electoral Tribunal
Full case name	Koko Pimentel versus Migz Zubiri
Decided	August 11, 2011 (2011-08-11)
Citation(s)	SET Case No. 001-07
Transcript(s)	Decision
Court membership
Judges sitting	Carpio (Senior Associate Justice), de Castro, Velasco (Associate Justices), P. Cayetano, Honasan, Lapid, Pangilinan, Revilla, Trillanes (Senator-members)
Case opinions
Concurrence	Carpio, de Castro, Velasco, P. Cayetano, Honasan, Lapid, Pangilinan, Revilla, Trillanes

Koko Pimentel versus Migz Zubiri (SET Case No. 001-07), better known as Pimentel v. Zubiri, is a Senate Electoral Tribunal case that resolved the election protest filed by Koko Pimentel after the proclamation of Migz Zubiri as senator after the 2007 Philippine Senate election. The tribunal on June 19, 2008, resolved to proceed with the election protest of Pimentel against Senator Zubiri: "Indeed, there is reasonable ground to believe that the outcome of the case could affect the officially proclaimed results of the 12th senatorial position in the 2007 Senate election, hence, the election protest case deserves further proceedings by the tribunal.^[1]

On August 3, 2011, Zubiri resigned his Senate seat weeks after former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao governor Zaldy Ampatuan and Maguindanao provincial election supervisor revealed the alleged irregularities in the 2007 election at the province.

On August 11, 2011, little more than a week after Zubiri's resignation, the SET proclaimed Pimentel as the 12th winning senator in the 2007 elections.^[2] The SET decision was based on the evidence presented by Pimentel in his protest showing many ballots were spurious.