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PDP-Laban asks Comelec to reopen COC filing period, postpone ballot printing

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is urging financial institutions to be extra vigilant on the misuse of its digital channels for illegal vote-buying and vote-selling amid heightened election-related activities. BSP Deputy Governor Chuchi G. Fonacier in a memo (Memorandum No. M-2021-074) issued

SAFETY PROTOCOL. A Commission on Elections personnel disinfects the center stage podium which candidates used during the filing of certificates of candidacy at Sofitel Harbor Garden Tent in Pasay City on Oct 6, 2021. The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan on Friday (Dec. 31, 2021) asked the poll body to reset the printing of ballots due to pending cases and to reopen the filing of certificates of candidacy. (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA - The Partido Demokratiko Pilipin...

(File photo) MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) said Wednesday its personnel have assisted the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the conduct of mock polls, allowing them to observe the actual process flow for the May 2022 elections. PNP Chief, Gen. Dionardo Carlos, said PNP personnel in the provinces of Albay, Negros Oriental, Leyte, Isabela, and Lanao del Sur, as well as the cities of Pasay and Taguig and the lone municipality of Pateros in Metro Manila, have coordinated with the ...

The cases are very likely to reach the Supreme Court

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Second Division has set the preliminary conference on the disqualification petition filed by Pudno nga Ilokano against presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on January 14. Comelec/MB "The parties are hereby notified that the conference of thi

With only a few months left before the 2022 polls, the Commission on Election (Comelec) came out with six new resolutions containing the rules on the prohibitions for the said electoral activity. Among the new issuance promulgated by the Comelec en banc last week is its Resolution 10741 containing the…

In the days of fintech and social media, can the traditional “3 Gs” of guns, goons, gold still distort the genuine voice of voters? Yes. And authorities are not standing down. THE Philippine National Police has stepped up its operations against private armed groups (PAGs), political warlords and threat groups…

With only a few months left before the 2022 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) came out with six new resolutions containing the rules on the prohibited acts as well as its preparations for the forthcoming electoral activity. Public works restrictions Among the new issuance promulgated by the Comelec en…

The Marcos camp presents BIR documents which show the former senator paid 'total deficiency taxes and fines due' in compliance with his 1997 conviction