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A resolution from a preparatory recall assembly composed of all of the elected local officials in the LGU concerned is another method of initiating a recall election. An official could be subjected to a recall only once during one's term of office, and from one year after the official took office, up to one year before the next regularly ...
Pages in category "Recall elections in the Philippines" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
In the Philippines, local officials are term limited after being elected for three consecutive three-year terms. Then Puerto Princesa mayor Edward Hagedorn was term limited in the 2001 election, and his handpicked successor Diomedes de Guzman lost to lawyer Victorino Dennis Socrates, son of Palawan governor Salvador Socrates, who went missing after his plane crashed in the Sulu Sea in 2000.
Elections in the Philippines are of several types. The president, vice-president, and the senators are elected for a six-year term, while the members of the House of Representatives, governors, vice-governors, members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial board members), mayors, vice-mayors, members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod/members of the Sangguniang Bayan (city/municipal councilors ...
The term "general election" is not predominantly used in the Philippines, but for the purposes of this article, a "general election" may refer to an election day where the presidency or at least a class of members of Congress are on the ballot. Since 1992, on presidential election days, the presidency, half of the Senate, the House of ...
The Philippines' dominant Marcos and Duterte political dynasties, uneasy allies for two years, are gearing up for an election showdown that could upset policy stability in the Southeast Asian ...
A recall election (also called a recall referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended. Recalls appear in the constitution in ancient Athenian democracy. [1]
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