Members of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the past few days, have been visiting several areas in the country where usual armed conflicts occur ahead of the elections to ensure that peace is observed and will prevail until the actual day of voting. Members of the Quezon City Police...
If a disqualification case based on vote buying was filed against a candidate before the proclamation, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) can suspend the proclamation, an official said on Thursday, March 31. (PNA / MANILA BULLETIN) Commissioner George Irwin Garcia said during a press briefing on...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday, March 31, disclosed the new format for the PiliPilinas Debates 2022 for presidential candidates that will take place on Sunday, April 3. If before candidates were asked one general question per segment, Comelec Spokesperson James B. Jimenez said...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc has approved the petition of the Department of Health (DOH) to be exempted from the public works and fund releases ban in place during the campaign period. A senior citizen is being inoculated with AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in Parañaque City on...
Unless a disqualification case would be filed against a party-list group, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Wednesday, March 30 their privileges to participate in the party-list system should be respected. (AFP FILE / MB file photo) In an interview, Commissioner George Irwin Garcia told...
(PULSE ASIA) Polling firm Pulse Asia on Tuesday, March 29, disowned a presidential preference survey allegedly conducted from March 10 to 15, 2022. “We have received numerous queries about alleged Pulse Asia survey results being circulated in social media and through instant messaging...
Poll watchdog Legal Network for Truthful Elections (Lente) hosted the kickoff of the source code review and presentation of the sampling software on Monday, March 28 that will be used on the conduct of the random manual audit (RMA) for the May 2022 automated elections. (Screenshot from LENTE...
With the quiet, steely courage of a true warrior is how independent presidential aspirant Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson will continue his electoral bid in the second half of the campaign period. Lacson declared this as he now pursues an independent bid for the presidential race of the May 2022...
Presidential candidate Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson will remain a candidate under Partido Reporma despite quitting as the party's standard-bearer. Commissioner George Garcia (Photo Comelec FB) This was according to Comelec Commissioner George Garcia. In a television interview on GMA's Unang Balita...
Candidates of the Makabayan bloc filed a case against National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy, as well as its other officials in relation to the statements made by the agency pointed out their supposed ties to the Communist Party of...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) signed on Thursday, March 24 a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to curb partisanship in the undertaking of government projects during the...
It's been weeks since the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was hounded by several criticisms amid issues on data breach and its decision to push through with printing albeit the absence of observers, yet on Thursday, March 24, the poll body took a different approach by allowing representatives to...