The Covid-19 pandemic is enough reason for lawmakers to postpone the barangay (village) and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections and move them to the first Monday of December 2023. Mountain Province Rep. Maximo Dalog Jr. presides the House committe hearing on the proposed postponement of the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday, August 16, has started printing the official ballots for the plebiscite in Calaca, Batangas. The official ballots and accountable forms for the Plebiscite to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Calaca, Batangas into a component city, is...
The postponement of the Dec. 5, 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls to December 2023 will incur an additional P5 billion on top of the P8 billion that has been allocated for it, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) chief said on Tuesday, Aug. 16. Comelec Chairman George Garcia (Photo...
The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms on Tuesday, Aug. 16, postponed the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections, initially scheduled on Dec. 5, 2022, to the first Monday of December 2023. Citizens line up to register with the Commission on Elections (FILE PHOTO/MANILA...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Garcia has assured the public that no funds will be wasted should the December 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan polls is postponed. Comelec/MB "The people have nothing to worry. No public funds shall be put to waste. Why? Because if we procure...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday, August 15, welcomed the nomination of Nelson Java Celis as poll commissioner. Comelec/MB Comelec Acting Spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco said Chairman George Erwin M. Garcia, together with Commissioners Socorro B. Inting, Marlon S. Casquejo, Aimee P....
The National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) wants to see changes in the country's voter registration process. Namfrel In a statement on Monday, August 15, the poll watchdog group recommended to the Legislature the following: • Allow data sharing agreements between the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is eyeing to start the printing of official ballots for the Dec. 5, 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan polls next month. Comelec/MB In an online forum on Sunday, August 14, Comelec Chairman George Garcia said based on their timetable, they need to start...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia said the May 2022 national and local elections is the most successful poll ever held in the country. Comelec/MB He said this during the last leg of post-election assessment for automated election system gathering held in General Santos...
The petition to cancel the Certificate of Candidacy (COC) of Puerto Princesa Mayor Lucilo R. Bayron has been dismissed last January, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) clarified on Thursday, Aug. 11. MB file photo "This is a reaction statement on issues circulating that Comelec purportedly...
Another lawmaker, this time from Mindanao, has joined the mounting calls to postpone the December 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections. Basilan Rep. Mujiv Hataman (Screenshot from House of Representatives Livestream) Basilan Rep. Mujiv Hataman has filed a bill to reschedule the Dec. 5...
Through electoral reforms, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia vowed to remove the distrust that the public has on the poll body. Comelec Chairman George Garcia (Ali Vicoy/MB) In an interview on ANC's Dateline Philippines, Garcia said that the poll body was able to do...
