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
Renting out 97,000 new vote-counting machines for the 2025 mid-term elections would cost the Commission on Elections (Comelec) an estimated P6.7 billion, according to Sen. Imee Marcos, who chairs her chamber s committee on electoral reforms and people s participation.
The private firm tapped by the Commission on Elections to supervise the logistical and technical requirements for its presidential and vice presidential debates yesterday said its failure to pay P14 million to debate venue Sofitel Plaza stemmed from “some misunderstandings” and “miscommunication.”