CAVITE – Carmona is now a component city of Cavite after the majority of plebiscite participants ratified its conversion from a municipality on Saturday, July 8. The municipal plebiscite board of canvassers said 30,363 voted “yes” while “1,016” voted “no” to cityhood. According to data...
CARMONA, Cavite – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is holding a plebiscite to ratify the conversion of Carmona into a component city on Saturday, July 8. Comelec Chairman George Erwin M. Garcia personally inspected polling precincts at Carmona National High School and Carmona Elementary...
CAVITE – Amid a Commission on Elections (Comelec) [gun ban in Bacoor City](https://mb.com.ph/2023/6/27/comelec-gun-ban-in-bacoor-starts-ahead-of-plebiscite-to-merge-44-barangays) ahead of a plebiscite, authorities nabbed a security guard over an indiscriminate firing incident in Barangay San...
Only 23 applications for gun ban exemption have so far passed the pre-evaluation stage since the Committee on the Ban on Firearms and Security Concerns (CBFSC) started accepting last June 5, the Commission on Elections said on Monday, July 3. Based on the data provided by Comelec spokesman Atty....
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will now prepare for two polls in 2025; the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) and the May 2025 National and Local Elections after the Supreme Court (SC) declared unconstitutional the law postponing Dec. 5, 2022, BSKE. In a public briefing,...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Wednesday, June 23, welcomed the Supreme Court's decision declaring the postponement of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) elections in December, 2022 as unconstitutional. Senate...
CAVITE – The Commission on Elections' (Comelec) gun ban in Bacoor City officially takes effect Wednesday, June 28, ahead of a plebiscite to merge 44 barangays into 18 villages in July. A send-off ceremony for personnel deployed in Comelec checkpoints was held on June 27 at the Bacoor...
There will be no changes with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) preparations for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections 2023 in October even after the Supreme Court (SC) declared unconstitutional the law postponing Dec. 5, 2022, BSKE, the poll body's top official said. "Nothing will...
CEBU CITY – A three-day public hearing will be conducted to determine if this year’s Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) in Negros Oriental will push through or not. LIONEL Marco Castillano, officer-in-charge of the Commission on Elections-Central Visayas (Comelec-7), briefs the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) conducted on Monday, June 19, a special election registration meeting for the purpose of deleting all double at multiple registrants in connection with the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE). In a statement, Comelec said that the Commission...
A petition was filed before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) seeking the disqualification of Smartmatic from participating in the procurement for the 2025 Automated Election System (AES). The 10-page petition, according to Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia was received on Friday morning,...
Amid calls to postpone the conduct of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) in Negros Oriental, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said it would be conducting public hearings in the province this month. In a statement sent by Comelec spokesman John Rex Laudiangco, the poll body...
