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On March 30, 2011, however, the Supreme Court reversed its ruling from the previous year, and upheld the constitutionality of RA 9355 and the creation of Dinagat Islands as a province. ^11 On June 19, 1965 the Philippine Congress approved Republic Act No. 4221 dividing the province of Samar into three provinces: Northern Samar , Eastern Samar ...
On 3 November 2022, former acting secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology Eliseo Rio Jr., former Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Gus Lagman, and ex-Finance Executives Institute president Franklin Ysaac, filed a "politically neutral urgent petition" in the Supreme Court of the Philippines, wherein they alleged that in the 9 May 2022 presidential ...
The Supreme Court overturns the disqualification of Smartmatic by COMELEC, saying that the latter committed grave abuse of discretion for disqualifying Smartmatic before it could participate in the bidding process for the 2025 elections, but stops short of nullifying COMELEC's existing agreements with alternative suppliers of logistics. [102]
The court ruled on April 21, 2009, that the 2% election threshold unconstitutional, and stipulated that for every four legislative districts created, one seat for sectoral representatives should be created; this thereby increased the sectoral seats in the 14th Congress from 22 to 55; the Supreme Court, however, upheld the 3-seat cap. [11]
It consists of 6 senators nominated by the Senate, and 3 justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, who are designated by the Chief Justice. The equivalent tribunals for elections to the lower house is the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal and to president and vice presidents is Presidential Electoral Tribunal .
Despite his dismissal, Rosal filed his candidacy for governor in the 2025 Philippine general election on October 3, 2024. [29] However, his disqualification for his 2022 election spending case, along with that of his wife Carmen in the mayoralty race in Legazpi, was upheld by the Supreme Court on October 22. [30]
Same as composition of the Supreme Court: Authorized by: Constitution of the Philippines: Judge term length: No fixed term (retirement at the age 70) Number of positions: 15: Annual budget ₱144.92 million (2020) [1] Website: sc.judiciary.gov.ph: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines; Currently: Alexander Gesmundo: Since: April ...
However, the COMELEC said the two percent vote requirement does not cover the organizations that won a congressional seat based on a recent Supreme Court ruling. [2] Militant groups Migrante and Sanlakas protested such de-listment, saying that they were not covered by the 2% rule, and that such rule is unconstitutional.