The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has activated a Citizen's Complaint Center (CCC) where complaints on vote-buying and selling can be filed. Commissioner Aimee Ferolino (Ali Vicoy/MB) Comelec Commissioner Aimee Ferolino, the head of the task for Kontra Bigay, announced the creation of the CCC...
With just less than a week before Election Day, May 9, at least 32 alleged members of private armed groups were arrested by authorities during a raid in Laguna. Comelec/MB “The chairman (Chairperson Saidamen B. Pangarungan) would like us to announce that there were 32 alleged members of private...
Over 37 million of the 65.7 million voters for the upcoming May 2022 polls fall under the "registered youth voters" population or the 18 to 41 years old age group, data from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) revealed. (MANILA BULLETIN) According to records obtained by Manila Bulletin, a total...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma On Monday, May 9, Filipinos will elect a new President and other national and local leaders. The election of a new President is a watershed event in the life of a nation. In 1986, the snap election called by Ferdinand Marcos – widely perceived as a gambit to fortify his grip...
Tasked with ensuring peaceful and orderly national and local elections, the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have deployed a total of more than 80,000 personnel ahead of the May 9 electoral exercise. More than preserving the sanctity of the ballot, the...
TOL VIEWS Senator Francis N. Tolentino Article V of our 1987 Constitution provides that suffrage – the right to vote – may be exercised by all citizens of the Philippines not otherwise disqualified by law, who are at least eighteen (18) years of age, and who shall have resided: (i) in the...
The voting precincts will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on May 9, Election Day, and everyone has an idea of what happens there within those hours. But what happens after the voting hours end and the polling precincts close? In precincts where people are still standing in line to vote after voting...
For Quezon City 5th district Rep. Alfred Vargas, poll-related offenses like syndicated vote-buying and cyber vote-buying must be defined under the Batas Pambansa (BP) Blg. 881 or the Omnibus Election Code. (Maxim Ilyahov/ Unsplash In a statement over the weekend, Vargas lamented how the provisions...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Will 1.7 million registered overseas voters matter at all in the 2022 national elections with total registered voters of over 67 million? At first glance, it appears that overseas votes are inconsequential and almost irrelevant to the outcome of one of the most...
Covid-positive voters who are in a queue at polling precincts are allowed to cast their vote on Election Day, May 9, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced on Sunday, May 1. (Polling Precinct/ MB FILE PHOTO) Poll Commissioner George Erwin M. Garcia said symptomatic voters will still be...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza This is the second to the last weekend before D-Day, D for decision. For candidates, D is for deadline, eight days before voters get out the vote on Monday, May 9. In elections past, elections were held on a Tuesday, but what’s past is past. For one thing, elections...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) reiterated its stance that individuals who are positive for Covid-19 on election day must stay in isolation. In a statement, the DOH said it "does not and will not stop any Filipino from exercising their constitutional right to vote for our country's leaders this...
