to amount to an evasion of a positive duty or to a virtual refusal to perform the duty enjoined or to act at all in contemplation of law.[27] We find no grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of the COMELEC Second Division in disqualifying Penera as a mayoralty candidate in Sta. Monica in the Resolution dated 24 July 2007; and also on the part of the COMELEC en banc in denying Peneras Motion for Reconsideration on the Resolution dated 30 January 2008. Said Resolutions are sufficiently supported by substantial evidence, meaning, such evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.[28] The prohibited act of premature campaigning is defined under Section 80 of the Omnibus Election Code, to wit: SECTION 80. Election campaign or partisan political activity outside campaign period. It shall be unlawful for any person, whether or not a voter or candidate, or for any party, or association of persons, to engage in an election campaign or partisan political activity except during the campaign period: Provided, That political parties may hold political conventions or meetings to nominate their official candidates within thirty days before the commencement of the campaign period and forty-five days for Presidential and Vice-Presidential election. (Emphasis ours.) If the commission of the prohibited act of premature campaigning is duly proven, the consequence of the violation is clearly spelled out in Section 68 of the said Code, which reads:

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