The voter registration for the 2025 national and local elections under the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has started in Muntinlupa on Monday, Feb. 12. According to the Comelec-Muntinlupa, the voter registration will be held from Feb. 12 to Sept. 30 this year from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at its...
Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara on Thursday, February 8 said he is confident that the holding of a plebiscite alongside an election is possible and allowed by the Supreme Court. Citing the 1981 Occena vs Comelec case, Angara said such political exercise is allowed and has long...
Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said he is considering passing the proposed amendments to the 1987 Constitution in time with the upcoming 2025 midterm elections. Sen. Sonny Angara, chairperson of the subcommittee of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes, commences...
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...
