Deputy Minority Leader Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, February 5 urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to permanently scrap the ongoing People’s Initiative and stop the acceptance of signatures and all other processes related to it. Sen. Risa Hontiveros attends the Constitutional...
Coinciding with the start of the voter registration period for the 2025 National and Local Elections (2025 NLE), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that the issuance of voter's certification in all Offices of the Election Officers, Comelec National Central File Division, and Comelec Office...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) should utilize the P12-billion fund supposedly earmarked for a plebiscite to prepare for the May 2025 midterm elections or other purposes, two senators urged the poll body on Wednesday, January 31. Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero said the...
Leyte 4th district Rep. Richard Gomez House Assistant Majority Leader Leyte 4th district Rep. Richard Gomez has filed a resolution urging the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to clean up and update its certified list of voters in the...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III told members of the House of Representatives (HOR) to urge their colleagues to call for the abandonment of the People's Initiative aimed at amending the Constitution. In a radio interview on Tuesday, January 30, Pimentel appealed to those behind...
House Majority Leader and Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) For House Majority Leader Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe, the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) directive to stop all...
Senators on Monday, January 29 lauded the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) move to come up with an en banc resolution to suspend all proceedings on the People’s Initiative (PI) to amend the 1987 Constitution. Wearing a maroon armband, Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri, in a...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia announced on Monday, Jan. 29, that the Commission En Banc has decided unanimously to suspend indefinitely all proceedings concerning the People's Initiative (PI) as a means to amend the 1987 Constitution. (Photo from the Office of...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III told the Senate that it can act legally in the sense of filing cases to question the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) so-called "ministerial role" of receiving signatures in relation to the push for People's Initiative (PI) to amend the 1987...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has ruled out the conduct of a plebiscite for the entirety of 2025, and even the final quarter of 2024 for that matter. In a briefing before the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms...
President Marcos has refuted claims that cash has been offered to Filipinos in exchange of their signatures to push Charter change through People's Initiative. "Sa pagkakaalam ko, wala namang ganun. Ang sinasabi hindi bayaran ng cash kundi nangangako ng kung ano anong benefits (As far as I know,...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has clarified that the additional P12 billion budget allocated by Congress to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) is not earmarked for the purpose of Charter Change. Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said on Wednesday, Jan. 17, that the allocated...
