Fee on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Garcia speaks earlier than the media in an ambush interview on Thursday, August 22, 2024. INQUIRER.internet picture / DIANNE SAMPANG
MANILA, Philippines — The Fee on Elections (Comelec) will introduce a brand new election guideline the place partylists might be required to submit 10 nominees to symbolize them, based on the ballot physique’s chairman George Garcia on Thursday.
Garcia stated in an ambush interview that this can be a new growth within the Republic Act 7941 or the Celebration-list System Act. The legislation initially mandates a registered occasion to submit not lower than 5 names that may function representatives within the Congress in the event that they safe the required variety of votes.
“Could bago tayong growth… na pagbabago sa 7941 o sa Partylist Regulation. Ang inyo pong Comelec, sa atin pong tips na ilalabas ay magrerequire ng sampung pangalan lamang sa listahan ng mga nominado na isusubmit nila sa Comelec,” he stated.
(Now we have a brand new growth… within the modifications of 7941 or the Partylist Regulation. Comelec, by the rules it should launch, would require ten names within the listing of the nominees to be submitted to Comelec.)
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Garcia defined that partylists and nominees, as soon as they received, can not resign all collectively and submit replacements.
“Ang desisyon natin, ng Fee en banc, sampu ang pangalan ng mga nominado at kung lahat nagresign, eh di wala na pong magiging representante yung mismong partylist sapagkat hindi po kami tatanggap ng kaukulang karagdagan o bagong listahan,” he added.
(Our determination, of Fee en banc, ten names will function nominees and if all of them resign, then a partylist will not have representatives as a result of we is not going to settle for extra names within the listing.)
The Comelec chief additionally urged partylists to decide on a real member of the sector they’re attempting to symbolize.
“Pakiusap namin, sana makapagpili sila ng mga tunay at lehitimo na mga myembro ng sektor kung ano ‘yong nirerepresenta. On the identical time, kasi kahit na sabihin nating unique prerogative ‘yan ng partylist, yung mga mismong nominees na kanilang isusubmit sapagkat ‘yan ay occasion matter,” he stated.
(We ask them to decide on real and legit members of the sectors they’re representing. On the identical time, even when they are saying that it’s an unique prerogative of the partylist, it’s a occasion matter.)
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He additionally added that Comelec can intervene if somebody recordsdata a petition to disqualify a nominee or query all the nominees of a partylist.
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Garcia shared that roughly 200 partylists have registered to Comelec for the 2025 midterm polls and those they’ve accredited thus far are round 30 partylists, during which he thought to be the bottom document “since time immemorial.”
