The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is hoping that the Sept. 17 Maguindanao plebiscite will also have a high voter turnout.
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"We've already conducted two plebiscites and we were successful. The last one was in Calaca where we had more than 56 percent voter turnout," Comelec Commiss
MANILA - A total of 24 top officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) got new assignments in a revamp. In a four-page memorandum released on Friday, Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia ordered the transfer of several ranking officials of the poll body and the designation of new department heads. "In the exigency of public service, please be informed that the following personnel are either reassigned to indicated stations or designated to indicated as heads of offices or ad hoc bodies," Garcia said in the memorandum dated September 15. Under the memorandum, Planning Department Director Esmeralda Ladra was reassigned to head the Internal Audit Department, replacing director Sittie Tawagon. Tawagon, meanwhile, was designated as the new Procurement Management Department director, replacing Zita Buena Castillon who was reassigned as the new Planning Department chief. On the other hand, Finance Services Department Director Maria Lea Alarkon has been designated as specia
The ballots for the Sept. 17 Maguindanao plebiscite will include Arabic translation, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Thursday.
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"The question is written in Tagalog and also has Arabic translation because this is required under the Omnibus Election Code for this area," Come