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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 enabling law mandated that COMELEC should schedule the plebiscite around August 2021, but COMELEC decided to postpone it until after the 2022 general election. [ 2 ] On June 22, 2022, the COMELEC en banc approved the date for the plebiscite on September 17, 2022, to ratify the law dividing the province into Maguindanao del Norte and ...
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 ...
In October 2020, the task force approved preparations to hold the plebiscite in the first quarter of 2021. [1] In December 2020, the COMELEC approved the conduct of the plebiscite on March 13, 2021. For the purpose of the rescheduled plebiscite, ballots already printed and bearing the original plebiscite date were used and still considered ...
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.
The 12-team College Football Playoff has given us more games and also juggled the bowl schedule. Bowl season began on Dec. 14 and now ends on Jan. 4 for the non-playoff bowls.
Calamba was represented as part of the at-large district of Laguna in the Malolos Congress (1898–1899), National Assembly of the Second Philippine Republic (1943–1944) and Regular Batasang Pambansa (1984–1986) and the first district of Laguna from 1907 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1972.
Congress is gathering for a joint session to certify the results of the 2024 election, the final step before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, after some major changes to ...