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Those waiting for the official list of candidates in the May 2022 polls may have to wait a bit more. Comelec/MB The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday, Dec. 14 announced that the list of official candidates will not be released this week. "The list of official candidates will not be r

No final list of candidates will be out on Wednesday, December 15, as the Comelec has yet to resolve a number of cases on nuisance candidates

A US-based Filipino lawyer who is also the dean of Northwestern University College of Law has dismantled the issues raised in each of the seven petitions to cancel the Certificate of Candidacy of presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. Atty. Emmanuel Samonte Tipon wrote an opinion piece providing legal arguments…

MAJORITY of the athletes and coaches—as well as delegation officials and staff—bound for the Hanoi 31st Southeast Asian Games couldn’t cast their votes in May next year. This after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) denied a request from the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) that the Hanoi-bound athletes be allowed to…

Editorial: A candidates responsibility

(File photo) MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) will assist the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the conduct of mock polls on December 29, allowing the force to observe the actual process flow for May 2022 elections. In a statement Sunday, PNP chief Gen. Dionardo Carlos said the activity would help them determine and evaluate the strategic plan for the deployment of personnel. "We will be waiting for the official advisory from (the) Comelec regarding the planned mock election...

The Commission on Elections treats as 'mere scraps of paper' the intervention filed by the group of a 1Sambayan convenor, and the responses made by Bongbong Marcos' political party

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) may not be able to release the official list of candidates in the May 2022 polls on Dec. 15. Comelec/MB In an online press briefing, Comelec Spokesman James Jimenez explained that there are still motu propio petitions against certain candidates, which have n

MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday denied the three motions to intervene on a petition to cancel the certificate of candidacy (COC) of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. In a 13-page order, the poll body's Second Division junked the motions for intervention separately filed by Rommel Bautista and others; Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. and others; and by the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) in connection with the petition filed by Fr. Christian Buenaf...

MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday denied the three motions to intervene on a petition to cancel the certificate of candidacy (COC) of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. In a 13-page order, the poll body's Second Division junked the motions for intervention separately filed by Rommel Bautista and others; Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. and others; and by the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) in connection with the petition filed by Fr. Christian Buenaf...