Section 3
SEC. 3. The Presidential Electoral Tribunal shall decide e contest within twenty months after it is filed, and within said period shall declare who among the parties has been elected, or, in the proper case, that none has been elected, and in case of a tie between the candidates for president or for vice-president involved in the contest, one of them shall be chosen President or Vice-President, as the case may be, by a, majority vote of the members of the Congress in joint session assembled. The party who, in the judgment, has been declared elected, shall have the right to assume the office as soon as the judgment becomes final, which shall be ten days after promulgation. The promulgation shall be made on a date previously fixed, of which notice shall be served in advance upon the parties or their attorneys, personally or by registered mail or by telegraph. No motion shall be entertained for the reopening of a case but only for the reconsideration of a decision under the evidence already of record. No party may file more than one motion for reconsideration, copy of which shall be served upon the adverse party who shall answer it within five days after the receipt thereof. Any petition for reconsideration shall be resolved within ten days after it is submitted for solution. As soon as a decision becomes final, a copy thereof shall be furnished both houses of the Congress.