MANILA, Philippines — Know your rights and protect your votes as a candidate, watcher, lawyer, voter or as an ordinary citizen when you vote on May 9 up to the time candidates are proclaimed, and even beyond when irregularities are questioned!
The Center for Global Best Practices will hold a special webinar entitled, Learn the do’s and don’ts in the May 9 election to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Friday, May 6 via Zoom.
Know the 4Cs of our election law (casting, counting, canvassing and cases). This program will include the electoral process, the dos and don’ts, the cases that can be filed after proclamation, the roles, rights and responsibilities of candidates, voters, poll watchers, board of canvassers and lawyers. It will comprehensively discuss the relevant laws, regulations, resolutions and decided cases promulgated by the Commission on Elections. Let us all learn-unlearn-relearn and be ready for the upcoming political exercise. We are all accountable.
This program will feature election law expert, Alberto Agra. He is an active law professor, Bar reviewer, author, and Election-Law-for-All advocate. Atty. Agra teaches Local Government Law, Administrative Law, Law on Public Officers, and Election Law at the Ateneo Law School. He is the incumbent chairman of the governing board of the Philippine Reclamation Authority and was the former acting secretary of Justice, acting Solicitor General and Government Corporate Counsel.
Registration is open to the general public. A must for election candidates, political operators, lawyer of a candidate, political party stakeholders, party-list officers, political strategists, campaign managers, financiers and funders, media practitioners, poll watchers, board of canvassers, voters and supporters.
CGBP is an accredited training provider of the DILG-Local Government Academy, the Civil Service Commission and other regulatory agencies. Government employees and officials who enroll in this training will not be covered by Philippine Procurement Law or RA 9184 based on its Revised IRR’s Section 4.5-b, which classifies training continuing education, conferences and similar activities as “non-procurement activities that shall be governed by applicable COA, CSC, and DBM rules.”
For details and to register, visit www.cgbp.org. You may also call Manila lines (+63 2) 8556-8968/69 or (+63 2) 8842-7148/59.