Opposition Senator Francis ‘’Kiko’’ Pangilinan on Thursday strongly suggested that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) should review its rule automatically erasing from its list of qualified voters those who failed to vote in two consecutive elections.
Opposition Senator Francis ‘’Kiko’’ Pangilinan on Thursday asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to study the possibility extending the registration of voters.
Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan
Deadline of Comelec’s voters registration is on September 30, months before the May 2022 presi
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Senator Francis Pangilinan (Photo from Kiko Pangilinan website / kikopangilinan.com / MANILA BULLETIN)
This after Pangilinan filed Senate Bill 2016, or Academic Freedom Act, banning all police and military operations in all state universities and colleges without coordination with school management.
The measure seeks to strengthen and uphold the freedom of teachers and students to teach, study and pursue knowledge and research without unreasonable interference or restrictions in all state universities and colleges.
Pangilinan, a former student leader, filed the bill after Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana recently unilaterally abrogated the 1989 University of the Philippines-Department of National Defense (UP-DND) accord.
The proposed measure seeks to protect and guarantee academic freedom enjoyed by SUCs by:
Opposition Senator Francis ‘’Kiko’’Pangilinan on Tuesday filed a Senate resolution expressing the sense of the Senate to oppose the unilateral termination of the 1989 University of the Philippines (UP)-Department of National Defense (DND) accord and to urge UP and DND to commence a dialogue and find