Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) verifies the authenticity of the signatures and ensures that the petition complies with the requirements set by law. If the petition is deemed valid, the proposed law or constitutional amendment is subjected to a national referendum. A majority vote in favor is needed for the proposal to become law.
As a consequence, the constitution was amended in 1940 to create an independent Commission on Elections, composed of a chairman and two other members, to take over the functions of the secretary of the interior relative to the elections. but since the amendments could not be effective in time for the 1940 elections, the National Assembly, by ...
This "simple legislation as the means to amend" would only require approval by both Houses voting separately. [6] All proposed amendment methods must be ratified by a majority vote in a national referendum. [6] While no amendment to the 1987 Constitution has succeeded, there have been several high-profile attempts since the Ramos administration ...
February 22 – COMELEC awards a ₱17.9 billion-contract to a joint venture led by South Korean firm Miru Systems to provide voting machines and other logistics for the 2025 general election, officially ending Smartmatic's role as the country's provider of voting machines since the automation of elections in 2010. [36]
The negative votes were cast by Senators Ping Lacson, Risa Hontiveros, Bam Aquino and Antonio Trillanes IV [13] Duterte's certification of the TRAIN as "urgent" allowed the bill to get passed the second reading [16] on November 28, 2017. [17] Within the same day, the Senate bill passed the third and final reading with 17 senators voting for the ...
On 3 November 2022, former acting secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology Eliseo Rio Jr., former Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Gus Lagman, and ex-Finance Executives Institute president Franklin Ysaac, filed a "politically neutral urgent petition" in the Supreme Court of the Philippines, wherein they alleged that in the 9 May 2022 presidential ...
Elections in the Philippines are of several types. The president, vice-president, and the senators are elected for a six-year term, while the members of the House of Representatives, governors, vice-governors, members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial board members), mayors, vice-mayors, members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod/members of the Sangguniang Bayan (city/municipal councilors ...
Party-list representatives are indirectly elected via a party-list election wherein the voter votes for the party and not for the party's nominees (closed list); the votes are then arranged in descending order, with the parties that won at least 2% of the national vote given one seat, with additional seats determined by a formula dependent on ...