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The COMELEC was created by a 1940 amendment to the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines. Prior to the creation of the COMELEC, supervision over the conduct of elections was vested by law in the Executive Bureau under the Department of Interior and, later directly by the same department. The secretary of interior saw to it that local authorities ...
The Palawan division plebiscite was a plebiscite held in the province of Palawan, Philippines on March 13, 2021.As required by Republic Act No. 11259, the plebiscite was conducted to consent the residents of Palawan on the proposal to divide the province into three separate provinces: Palawan del Norte, Palawan del Sur, and Palawan Oriental.
On May 10, the Comelec's en banc, in a vote of 6-0-1, upheld its earlier dismissal of two sets of similar cases—or a total of four appeals or petitions filed as early as November 2021—that sought to bar Marcos from the 2022 presidential race because of his conviction in a 1990s tax case.
VFP vs. COMELEC: 2% of the vote: Party with most votes: 4% of the vote: Party with most votes: 6% of the vote Other parties: Total votes divided by votes of the party with most votes; quotient will be multiplied by the number of seats the party with the most votes have. Product, disregarding decimals, is the number of seats. BANAT vs. COMELEC ...
On October 13, 2020, in a vote of 4–1, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has granted the nominee of Duterte Youth partylist, Ducielle Marie Suarez-Cardema, a certificate of proclamation in relation to the 2019 midterm polls. [6] The group, due to its chosen name, has been likened to the Hitler Youth of the Nazi Party. [7]
The resolution was affirmed by the commission en banc in May 2006. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Rosal later brought the issue to the Supreme Court which issued the status quo ante order in June 2006 and, in March 2007, nullified all decisions by the COMELEC, allowing him to continue performing as mayor while the true results of the 2004 mayoral elections are ...
Instead, on December 11, 2019, COMELEC — taking into account the September 10, 2019 Supreme Court ruling on the South Cotabato case (Vice Mayor Shirlyn L. Bañas-Nograles, et al. Vs. Commission on Elections [8]) — adopted the recommendation of its legal department to direct the Special Provincial Board of Canvassers for the Province of ...
As a matter of principle, higher legislative entities have the power to create, divide, merge, abolish, or substantially alter boundaries of any lower-level local government through a law or ordinance, all subject to approval by a majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite to be conducted by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in the local ...