Thursday, January 15, 2015

COMELEC DavNor prepares for SK elections



DAVAO DEL NORTE, Jan. 15 (PIA)---The continuing registration of voters will be suspended in February to give way for the Sangguniang Kabataan elections on February 21.

Davao del Norte election officer, Atty Gay Enurables this morning revealed that the COMELEC now gets into preparation mode for SK Elections and that election officers are into information drive for the election.

Enurables said her office takes focus on preparing for SK election “because there has been no advise for its suspension.

There had been series of efforts to suspend  the SK Elections in the past but COMELEC still prepared for the eventual holding of the youth elections by promulgating COMELEC Resolution No. 9905 on October 21, 2014.

Based on the resolution, the continuing registration, validation and updating of voters’ records will be suspended from Feb. 1 to Feb. 28 while the SK election day is slated on Feb. 21.
           
COMELEC Resolution 9905 also sets the filing of candidacy on Feb. 7, Feb. 9 and Feb. 10  and the campaign period  from Feb. 11 to Feb. 19.

Atty. Enurables said the filing of candidacy will be done at the COMELEC offices in the municipal and city levels but the casting of votes goes down at the barangay level.

Meanwhile, COMELEC has set prohibited acts during the SK election period that will run from Jan. 22 to March 2 and even during campaign period, on the eve of the election and on election day. COMELEC lays down specifics of such prohibitions in Resolution 9905.    (PIA XI/Jeanevive Duron-Abangan)

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