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Filing
of certificates of candidacy (COCs) for the barangay and Sangguniang
Kabataan elections will end on Thursday, while the campaign
period is set, Oct. 19 to 27.
The
entire election period will be from September 29 to November
13, or 30 days before and 15 days after the elections.
Comelec
Provincial Officer Bernie Petalcorin said he expects no more
postponement of the scheduled elections while bets have eagerly
registered with barely five days left.
Meanwhile,
the poll body said placing of posters and streamers of candidates
are not allowed.
Maribella
Decasa, of the provincial Comelec office, said that Comelec
awaits for the submission of reports from municipal offices
containing the number of candidates and other data until after
the deadline of filing.
She
said that until yesterday there is no tag yet of "hot
spot" of a particular area in the province. The COC filing
and other activities are going smoothly, she added.
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Decasa
bared that the number of voters in the entire province
having 3,426 clustered precincts swelled to 765,574,
including SK voters of about 59,134. Regular voters
for barangay polls are placed at 696,440.
Under
Comelec Resolution No. 8301, the following are strictly
prohibited: bearing, carrying or transporting firearms
or other deadly weapons; use of security personnel or
bodyguards; bearing arms by any member or security or
police organization of government agencies and other
similar organizations; and organization or maintenance
of reaction forces within the indicated election period.
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The
said Resolution also mandated the Education and Information
Department is directed to do the widest dissemination in the
implementation and publication of the same (Resolution).
The
Resolution was signed by former Comelec chairman Benjamin
Abalos and commissioners Resurreccion Borra, Florentino A.
Tuason, Jr., Romeo A. Brawner, Rene V. Sarmiento and Nicodemo
T. Ferrer. (RVO)
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