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Comelec/MB The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that 17 vote buying/selling cases have already been filed at the poll body in relation to the recent conduct of the May 2022 general elections. There are already 17 "docketed verified complaint-affidavit for vote buying/selling" at the poll bo

Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez (File photo) MANILA - A lawmaker on Monday said he is looking to refile in the next Congress the twin measures that aim to "purify" the electoral process by prohibiting the substitution of candidacy after the deadline for filing and making mandatory the resignation of an incumbent elective official running for another position. Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said the two proposals aim to end practices and political parties that "put in doub...

THE Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the petition seeking to compel the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to strictly enforce the term limits on elective officials, particularly those in Congress, and to declare as unconstitutional the reelection of termed out senators and congressmen. In an 18-page en banc decision penned by…

MANILA-Duterte Youth Party-list Rep. Ducielle Cardema on Friday filed a formal opposition before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to the late substitution of former Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon as the new first nominee of the winning party-list group of the Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD). In a letter addressed to Comelec Executive Director Bartolome Sinocruz Jr., Cardema lodged her objection to Guanzon's substitution as it violates the Comelec...

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said the Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD) Party List have until June 19 to publish their list of new nominees. Comelec/MB "This new list must be published in two newspapers of nationwide general circulation until June 19 (w

Former Comelec commissoner Rowena Guanzon (File photo) MANILA - The public is free to question the nomination of former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon, as one of the nominees of Komunidad ng Pamilya, Pasyente at Persons with Disabilities (P3PWD) party-list. "Verified petition to deny due course and/or cancellation - Section 1, Comelec Resolution No. 9366, may be filed by any person exclusively on the ground that a material misrepresentation has been committed ...

‘Massive fraud’ in favor of reelected Talisay mayor

The Philippine National Police recorded 3,436 cases filed against persons arrested for violation of the gun ban, liquor ban, and for vote buying and vote selling over the 152-day election period, it disclosed Friday.

Vice president-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio has filed her Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), declaring to have spent over P216 million for her campaign.

The incoming president has declared P623.2 million in campaign expenditures that he says he received from his party, the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, and “other sources.” The PFP, for its part, declared P272 million spent for the campaign of its standard bearer.