Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataans elections to be held on May 2018. ELECTIONS – The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte postpones the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on the second week of May 2018. President Rodrigo Duterte has already signed the law mandating that the following elections for the barangay and the Sangguniang Kabataan will be held … Read more
Alleged Election Fraud Compared By Atty. Glenn Chiong To A Convent Virgin Bearing A Child Atty. Glenn Chiong reacts on the alleged election fraud regarding manipulated SD cards, comparing it to a ‘convent virgin bearing a child’. The lawyer refers to the 1, 356 contingent or extra VMCs stripped by Comelec last October 2016 so … Read more
Smartmatic Expects Comelec to Physically Turn over the VCMs. Technology Provider Smartmatic was expecting the Comelec to “physically” turn over more than 97,000 VCMs that it leased for May polls. Smartmatic executive Elie Moreno confirmed to the media that they are expecting the Comelec to return the machine to them in the same manner that it … Read more
The president revealed his reasons why he agreed to postpone the upcoming Sangguniang Kabataan and Barangay elections. Barangay elections is two months away but President Rodrigo Duterte says he is amenable to postponing it for some reasons. As he spoke to the officials and troopers of the Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom) during the unit’s 10th … Read more
Monico Puentevella adds another item on his list of lost battles with Bing Leonardia. Former Bacolod City Mayor Monico Puentevella’s list on lost battles with Mayor Evelio Leonardia is an item longer after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division dismissed his election protest against his archrival. The poll body maintained that Puentevella failed to … Read more
SK candidates will be sworn under oath to ensure honesty. The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) ensures that it will strictly enforce the anti-political dynasty provision of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Reform Act of 2015 in the upcoming elections on October. Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said, the poll body will rigidly screen the candidates in the … Read more
Comelec reveals the reason on why the commission does not want to give extension on voters’ registration period. Comelec reveals the reason behind the urge to be against the petition for extension of the voters’ registration filed by youth groups in the Supreme Court. Youth involvement in politics is vital. A greater percentage in the … Read more
The poll body says Barangay and SK voter’s registration ends on July 30. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) reiterates that it will not extend the July 30 deadline of the voter’s registration period for the 2016 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. The poll body’s chairman, Andres Bautista, said that an extension on the registration will … Read more
The Philippines most dominant political party under the Aquino administration, the Liberal Party of the Philippines (LP) finally submitted on Tuesday its Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) one week after the deadline set by the national poll body. Liberal Party’s SOCE was received by the Comelec Campaign Finance … Read more
The Commission on Election (Comelec) explained and clarified the complains thrown against them by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT)-Philippines who claimed that 100,000 Teachers working as BEI’s have remained unpaid by the country’s poll body. According to COMLEC Chairman Andres Bautista during a press briefing they have already paid about 410,0000 of the 476,000 … Read more