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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 doubt" the integrity of the elections. He hoped that the incoming 19th Congress would approve the m...
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 rules on the deadline of substitution, as well as the Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and the Code ...
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