Comelec 80% ready for Barangay, SK elections cnnphilippines.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnnphilippines.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ILOILO CITY – Former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria M. Arroyo said that only President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. can decide whether or not to postpone the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (BSKE) elections in December.
FORMER President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria M. Arroyo was in Iloi
The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms on Thursday, Aug. 25, approved during its second meeting the substitute bill that seeks to postpone the synchronized barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections from December 2022 to the first Monday of December 2023.
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House panel OK s substitute bill for village, youth council election postponement bworldonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bworldonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(PNA file photo) MANILA - The Senate will decide on whether or not the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) would push through on December 5 after receiving the budget requirements of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). The Comelec will submit to the Senate a detailed breakdown of how it intends to spend the PHP8.5 billion fund for December 5. The poll body will likewise make an estimated budget if the BSKE is postponed to December 2023, which was already approved by the House of Representatives, or May 2023, the date which the Comelec prefers. During the joint organizational meeting on Tuesday conducted by the Senate committees on electoral reforms, local government, and finance, Comelec chairperson George Garcia said if the BSKE is moved to May 2023, the number of clustered precincts would rise to 230,415 with an estimated budgetary requirement of PHP17.093 billion. If the polls are reset to December 2023, there would be 239,000 clustered precincts with an PHP18.441