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                    [Title] => Right to reply smuggled in Comelec IRR
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In apparent show of “unity,” the entire Commission on Elections (Comelec), including two feuding commissioners, appeared together before the media yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-12 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136417 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097308 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1 [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1362596 [Title] => Brillantes retirement unlikely to affect poll preparations [Summary] =>

Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. yesterday expressed confidence that his impending retirement would not delay preparations for the 2016 presidential elections.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 653236 [Title] => Brillantes underscores need to fill Comelec posts [Summary] =>

 Elections chairman Sixto Brillantes underscored yesterday the need to immediately fill the posts to be vacated today with the retirement of commissioners Nicodemo Ferrer and Gregorio Larrazabal.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 563381 [Title] => SBP holds clinic for FIBA commissioners [Summary] =>

The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas will host a FIBA-Asia commissioners’ clinic from May 4-5 in Manila for cage officials from various Asian countries to be FIBA-licensed commissioners.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 526599 [Title] => Illiteracy at the COMELEC [Summary] =>

If proof were needed that Filipinos cannot write, I give you COMELEC’s SPP Case No. 09-228 (PL), entitled “In the matter of the petition for registration of Ang Ladlad LGBT Party for the party-list system of representation in the House of Representatives, represented herein by Chairman Danton Remoto,” promulgated on Nov. 11, 2009, by Hon. Nicodemo T. Ferrer, Hon. Lucenito N. Tagle, and Hon. Elias R. Yusoph.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134791 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1365384 [AuthorName] => Isagani Cruz [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 478067 [Title] => With further amendments, new PSC law is welcome [Summary] =>

I obtained a copy of House Bill (HB) 6090, entitled “An Act Amending Republic Act No. 6847, otherwise known as the “The Philippine Sports Commission Act,” introduced by Cong. Cesar Jalosjos, chairman of the House Committee on Youth and Sports.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135709 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653011 [AuthorName] => Philip Ella Juico [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 412858 [Title] => Comelec immobilized [Summary] =>

Malacañang’s non-renewal of appointment of three Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners has hampered ...

[DatePublished] => 2008-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 381201 [Title] => New Comelec rules to speed up resolution of poll protests [Summary] => Apparently anticipating a deluge of electoral protests in the May 14 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has laid down new rules to expedite the deliberation of cases.

Under Resolution No.7808, two Comelec divisions will hear and decide on protests and petitions, with three commissioners in each division.

The most senior of the three will be named presiding commissioner. The divisions will not have jurisdiction over Comelec’s citizens-arm accreditation.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 348649 [Title] => EDITORIAL — Stonewalling [Summary] => The Constitution says members of the Commission on Elections can be removed only by impeachment. Does this exempt Comelec commissioners from being investigated or sanctioned for wrongdoing? Comelec commissioners think so. The Office of the Ombudsman thinks otherwise, arguing that an investigation is necessary to recommend the impeachment of members of constitutional bodies.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 348152 [Title] => ‘Ombudsman can’t probe Comelec execs’ [Summary] => Commission on Elections Chairman Benjamin Abalos and three commissioners are not expected to show up in today’s clarificatory hearing before the Office of the Ombudsman on the voided P1.3-billion poll automation contract after a lawyer for one of the officials insisted that the anti-graft agency has no jurisdiction over top Comelec officials.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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