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Comelec: Unqualified local aspirants will be rejected
The Commission on Elections on Monday announced that it will order its regional offices to outright reject the certificate of candidacies of unqualified aspirants for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, including overaged Sangguniang Kabataan bets and candidates for barangay posts who are not registered voters. Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia said that the move is to prevent a backlog of disqualification cases related to the upcoming polls as there are more than 4,000 petitions have been filed before the poll body. “We have decided that the local Comelec has the powers to reject and remove the CoCs of those unqualified. Why do we need to make things difficult? We’ll just not accept the candidacies of these people,” Garcia said. He added that Section 39 of Title Two, Chapter 1 of the Local Government Code of 1991 states that barangay aspirants must be at least 18 years old during election day on 30 October, must be a registered voter, as well as a resident of the barangay concerned for at least a year, and should be able to read or write. Meanwhile, Section 2 of Chapter 10 of Republic Act 10742 or the Sangguniang Kabataan Reform Act of 2015 states that candidates must be between 18 to 24 years of age on election day, able to read and write in English, Filipino or the dialect used in the barangay, must not be related to incumbent national and local officials at the “second civil degree of consanguinity or affinity,” and must not be convicted with finality on cases involving moral turpitude. However, Garcia clarified that disqualified aspirants could petition for their candidacy before the Comelec who will, in turn, decide whether their local poll boards were correct or not with their rejections. He also vowed to rule on all petitions, including disqualification petitions, before the 30 October polls. “We are committing ourselves to resolve these petitions before 30 October, for us to prove whether someone’s candidacy should be removed or not. If we affirmed the decision of the local Comelec, they could go to the Supreme Court,” Garcia said. The filing of CoCs is scheduled from 28 August to 2 September, with the first day marking the start of the election period for the Barangay and SK Elections. The post Comelec: Unqualified local aspirants will be rejected appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
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