The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has approved the pilot testing of the automated election system (AES) in select barangays during this year’s Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE).
The October 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections will no longer be postponed, the Commission on Elections said.
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) will print the ballots for the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) starting January 11.
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) will be holding next week a special registration for persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) nationwide.
Some of the senators who voted for the law that deferred the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) have expressed confidence that it would hurdle the legal challenge brought by election lawyer Romulo Macalintal before the Supreme Court on Monday.
Kabataan party-list group on Thursday denounced the signing of the law postponing the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, branding it as “anti-democratic.”
Expenses for the December 5 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) will soar if Congress fails to pass the bill postponing it by the end of October, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Garcia said Wednesday (September 28).
Seventeen senators voted on Tuesday to postpone the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) for another year while only Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III and his deputy, Senator Risa Hontiveros, opposed.
The official ballots for the Dec. 5 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) will have a special feature that is solely for the forthcoming polls.
Due to the habitual postponement by Congress of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, Senator Imee Marcos has proposed a fixed term for these elected officials.
