Unopposed candidates in the May 2022 polls are not automatic winners. Comelec/MB This is because an unopposed candidate needs at least one vote in order to win. Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Luie Guia explained the reason for this. "Kailangan 'elected' talaga siya. Pag wala...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Marlon Casquejo said on Saturday, April 30 that they are confident that there will be no repeat of the seven-hour delay that occurred during the 2019 midterm elections. (JEL SANTOS/MANILA BULLETIN) It can be remembered that in the 2019 polls, a...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has upgraded the classification of Pilar town in Abra from orange to red, in line with the alleged killing last March 29 of the staff of Vice Mayor Jaja Josefina Somero Disono of Pilar, Abra. MB file photo "Putting a certain area under Comelec control is a...
The Commission on Elections' (Comelec) technology provider for the automated election system (AES) Smartmatic reiterated on Friday, April 29 that the AES remaiins "safe and secure" for the upcoming May 2022 elections. Comelec Chairman Saidamen Pangarungan and Commissioner George Garcia during the...
Education Secretary Leonor Briones urged the personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) as well as the learners who are registered voters to use their conscience when voting for the country’s next leaders in the upcoming elections. Education Secretary Leonor Briones (Photo courtesy of...
More than 647,000 personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) will serve as poll workers during the election day on May 9. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Given this, DepEd assured that it will provide support and necessary assistance to the participating personnel as part of the agency’s...
Voters with Covid-19 symptoms may still cast their votes in the May 9 polls, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya assured Friday, April 29. Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya / DILG photo He stressed that a new normal committee formed by the Commission...
Those experiencing Covid-19 symptoms have been repeatedly advised by the Department of Health (DOH) stay at home and isolate themselves on election day. But according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), as long as they have not undergone any tests to show that they have been infected by the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) gave presidential as well as vice presidential candidates until Friday noon, April 29 to confirm their participation in the poll body's PiliPinas Forum 2022. MB file photo In a message sent to reporters on Thursday, April 28, Comelec Commissioner George Erwin...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced on Thursday, April 28 that it has granted a petition for exemption for the programs and projects of four more government institutions. MB file photo During a press conference, Commissioner George Erwin Garcia disclosed that the poll body granted the...
An interview format for presidential and vice presidential candidates will now push through in place of the postponed concluding event of the PiliPinas Debates 2022 Series after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) signed an Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng...
Independent presidential candidate Senator Panfilo M. Lacson today (April 28) hinted at a possibility of his and his running mate Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III pulling a major upset in the coming May 9 elections. A press statement from the Lacson-Sotto tandem stated that survey frontrunners...
