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The Commission of Elections (Comelec) in Las Piñas announced the temporary suspension of voter registration from June 24 to 29 to allow election officers to focus on the upcoming plebiscite for territorial boundaries of the city’s 20 barangays.
The Comelec in Manila issued a Memorandum Order No.240624 addressed to Commissioner Aimee Ferolino, plebiscite commissioner-in-charge; Director Rafael Olano, deputy executive director for operation; and Atty. Datumama Macaindig, of Las Piñas office of the election, directing the temporary suspension of voter registration in the city in preparation for the plebiscite for territorial boundaries to be held on June 29.
The Comelec will conduct a plebiscite to allow Las Piñas City residents to vote for or against an ordinance that sets the territorial boundaries of the 20 barangays in the city.
City Ordinance No. 1941-23 Series of 2023 delineates the territorial boundaries of the 20 barangays in the city in accordance with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR) cadastral survey that was completed in March 2015.
The ordinance states that since the creation of the barangays in 1978, “the territorial metes and bounds of the said barangays have not been properly identified such that there are barangays whose land areas are not contiguous and/or overlapping with another barangay.”
“Moreover, confusion in the territorial boundaries of the barangays is being encountered which could cause disputes, or be subject of disputes, especially since the cadastral mapping in 1980 for the barangays conflicted with the boundaries as set forth in the Presidential Decrees,” the ordinance states.
The plebiscite will be held from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., and gun ban has been implemented since May 28 until July 6, while liquor ban will be enforced on June 28 to 29.