The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has decided to move the start of the printing of the ballots for the December 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) to next week. Commission on Elections (MANILA BULLETIN) Instead of this week, Comelec Acting Spokesperson John Rex...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is looking to shorten the campaign period for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) from 60 days to 40 or 45 days. MB file photo "We don't want our people to be harassed by candidates going here and there 60 days po kasi yun eh, before po kasi...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division's resolution to disqualify Albay Governor Noel Rosal is not yet final and executory, Chairman George Erwin Garcia said on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Comelec Chairman George Garcia (Ali Vicoy/MB) In an interview on ANC, Garcia said that the decision is...
The proposed measure seeking to defer, yet again, the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls has been approved on third and final reading by the House of Representatives. (PPAB) Getting the final nod of congressmen was House Bill (HB) No.4673, titled, "An Act postponing the December 2022...
With over 91 million ballots set to be printed for the December 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said the National Printing Office (NPO) is targeting to print an average of three million ballots daily. Comelec/MB "The NPO has committed...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said the ballots that will be printed for the December 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan polls will have serial numbers as an additional security feature. Comelec/MB "The ballots will have a serial number...Just like in our banknotes. This is a security...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division has granted the petition to disqualify Albay Governor Noel Rosal for violating the 45-day spending ban. MB file photo In a 22-page document promulgated on Monday, Sept. 19, the First Division stated that they had granted the petition filed by...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will start printing the ballots for the December 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan polls this week. Comelec/MB The poll body is pushing through with the printing despite moves to postpone the Dec. 5 exercise. "It will start on Wednesday," Comelec Chairman...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be coming out with a legal opinion on who should sit as governors of the newly created provinces of Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte. Comelec/MB "The provision of Republic Act 11550 creating the two provinces in Maguindanao presupposes that...
Majority of voters in the Sept. 17 Maguindanao plebiscite voted "yes" to split the province. Comelec/MB Based on the official Canvass of the Plebiscite Provincial Board of Canvassers, the total number of "yes" votes was at 706,558 (99.27 percent) while the "no" votes totalled 5,209 (0.73 percent)....
The Sept. 17 Maguindanao Plebiscite is now the second highest voter turnout in a province-wide plebiscite, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Sunday. Comelec/MB In a statement, Comelec Acting Spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco said this after the official Canvass of the Provincial Plebiscite...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) expressed optimism on Saturday, Sept. 17 that it can surpass a 70 percent voter turnout in the recently-concluded Maguindanao plebiscite (Photo courtesy of the Office of Comelec Chairman George Garcia) "If this happens, na malampasan natin ang 70 percent, we...
