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All set for Marawi plebiscites, 1st local electoral exercise since siege in 2017 - Comelec

Published Mar 17, 2023 06:18 am
Preparations for the Marawi City plebiscites have been completed, the first local electoral exercise since the siege in 2017, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Friday, March 17. In a statement, Comelec stated that it conducted on Friday (March 17) a command conference in the House of Living Traditions at Rizal Park, located at the former ground zero where the vicious five-month siege took place in 2017. The plebiscites will be the first exclusively local electoral exercise after the end of the siege and hostilities and the liberation of Marawi City in 2017, following the 2019 and 2022 National and Local Elections and the 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE). Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia led the Command Conference attended by Commissioner Aimee Ferolino (Commissioner-in-Charge for Plebiscites), and. Commissioner Ernesto Ferdinand P. Maceda, Jr. Also there was BGen. Yegor Rey Baroquillo, Jr. PA, Brigade Commander of the 103rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), PCol. Robert Daculan, Provincial Director of the Lanao del Sur Police Provincial Office of the Philippine National Police (PNP), and Dr. Anna Zenaida A. Unte-Alonto, Officer-in-Charge of the Marawi City Schools Division Superintendents.  as well as various Comelec Main and Field Office Directors, Various stakeholders from the Comelec, AFP, PNP, Department of Education (DepEd), the Local Government of Marawi City, and the Provincial Government of Lanao del Sur were also there. Comelec said that security measures have been laid down firmly by the Joint Task Group Haribon of the AFP-PNP which are to be strictly implemented in two clustered precincts in Bito Elementary School Voting Center for the 480 Registered Voters of Barangay Sagonsongan; and three clustered precincts in Kilala Elementary School Voting Center for the 992 Registered Voters of Barangay Boganga. As stated by Garcia, the creation of two new barangays subject of the plebiscites are the "direct resultant effects" of the Marawi Siege due to the significant increase in the population on account of internally displaced persons, all of whom are now permanent actual inhabitants thereof, and whose paramount welfare will be served by the newly-created barangay local government units of Barangays Boganga II and Datu Dalidigan. The upcoming electoral exercises are expected to have a significant impact in the future and welfare of the residents, thus it is hoped that a high voter turn-out will be achieved during the eight-hour voting from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 18. "With the whole-of-government approach in unity with the community, the Comelec assures not only an honest, orderly, peaceful, accurate, fair and credible plebiscites, but more so the safety of all voters in going to and from the aforementioned voting centers and their respective places of abode," Comelec said. "Standing in the center of the ruins of the Marawi Siege, the Comelec hails the great Marano spirit, that battles may have crushed their homes of livelihood but never their spirit of resiliency and democracy," it added.

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