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Senate suspends Comelec budget hearing after poll body fails to provide documents


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Stressing how the Comelec has grown tired of people making a “mockery” of the elections, Comelec spokesman Rex Laudiangco over the weekend said the poll body is seeking to criminalize nuisance candidacies under Chairman George Garcia’s term.

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MANILA, Philippines — The Senate Committee on Finance has suspended the Commission on Elections' budget hearing after the poll body failed to provide documents requested by lawmakers. 

 

These include a detailed computation for the 2023 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE), update on the compensation of workers and data on overseas absentee voting. 

 

“The BSKE with the outrageous demand of an additional P10 billion, you have not come back to me… the performance of the OFW, which while improved, continues to be more or less miserable,” Sen. Imee Marcos, finance committee chairperson, said. 

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/10/17/2217349/senate-suspends-comelec-budget-hearing-after-poll-body-fails-provide-documents

 

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