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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said more than one million new voters were registered since the voter registration activity resumed last December, an official of the poll body said.
The Comelec resumed the registration activities last Dec. 12, 2022 and will end on Jan. 31, 2023
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has issued an urgent memorandum asking the Provincial Election Supervisors (PES) to explain the cases of missing certificates of canvass (COCs) that occured during the canvassing of votes of the House of Representatives and Senate.
MB file photo The urgent m
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) liquor ban will be in effect on Sunday, May 8 until the election day on Monday, May 9.
MB file photo This is in accordance with Resolution No. 10746 of the poll body. According to the resolution, promulgated on Dec. 16, 2021, the poll body said it shall be
President Rodrigo Duterte MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed dismay over the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) failure to include the police and military personnel in the list of individuals exempted from the existing gun ban. In his prerecorded Talk to the People delivered Monday night but aired Tuesday morning, Duterte said it was a "bad idea" to prohibit the members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) from carrying firearms during the ban that began January 9 and will end June 8. "Getting individually clearances from the Comelec is really a bad idea," he said. Duterte made the remark as he lamented that some PNP and AFP personnel have been arrested for violating the nationwide gun ban. Duterte was opposed to the Comelec's requirement that a cop or a soldier needs to secure a permit first, saying they should be given an "automatic" exemption. "Eh kung miyembro ka ng military pa