The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms on Tuesday voted to postpone the December 5, 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) to December 4, 2023.
The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms on Tuesday voted to postpone the December 5, 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to December 4, 2023.
Barzaga also said those elected during the December 4, 2023 elections will start their term at noon of January 1, 2024. He told lawmakers the postponement of the electoral exercise for at least year will cost the government an additional P5 billion. Earlier, Atty. Romulo Macalintal, a veteran election lawyer, said Congress has no power to postpone the village polls, saying any postponement is unconstitutional.
However, Macalintal said, Congress has the power to postpone the Sangguniang Kabataan polls since SK is not created by the constitution and that SK officials are not barangay nor local elective officials.Meanwhile, Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto wants the savings from the election postponement to be allocated for priority programs of the Department of Agriculture .
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