{"id":133803,"date":"2017-11-24T04:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T09:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=133803"},"modified":"2017-11-24T04:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T09:11:32","slug":"duterte-appoints-sheriff-abas-as-new-comelec-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/24\/duterte-appoints-sheriff-abas-as-new-comelec-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte appoints Sheriff Abas as new Comelec chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_133830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133830\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sheriff-Abas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133830\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sheriff-Abas.jpg\" alt=\"President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Commission on Elections (Comelec) Sheriff Abas as the new poll chief in replacement of Andres \u201cAndy\u201d Bautista. (Photo: Rowena V. Guanzon\/Twitter)\" width=\"675\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sheriff-Abas.jpg 675w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sheriff-Abas-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sheriff-Abas-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Commission on Elections (Comelec) Sheriff Abas as the new poll chief in replacement of Andres \u201cAndy\u201d Bautista. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/commrguanzon\/status\/735336217429041153\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/commrguanzon\">Rowena V. Guanzon\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Commission on Elections (Comelec) Sheriff Abas as the new poll chief in replacement of Andres \u201cAndy\u201d Bautista.<\/p>\n<p>According to the appointment paper signed on Wednesday, Abas, as the new Comelec chief, will serve until February 2, 2022, or what should have been the resigned election chief\u2019s remaining term. Abas\u2019 appointment paper was then released by Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista was impeached by the House of Representatives after his estranged wife, Patricia, disclosed the alleged unexplained wealth of the poll chief.<\/p>\n<p>Abas\u2019 appointment is subject to confirmation by the Commission on Appointments (CA).<\/p>\n<p>Abasis the nephew of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leader Mohagher Iqbal. He has been appointed to the Comelec by former president Benigno Aquino III in 2015, and was confirmed by the CA a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Before his appointment to the Comelec, Abas was a law professor. He worked as acting assistant regional director of the Civil Service Commission in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao from June 2007 until April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He completed his undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Notre Dame University, Cotabato City in 1999 and obtained his law degree from the Ateneo de Davao University in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Abas\u2019 appointment, Commissioner Christian Robert Lim was named as acting chairman, following Bautista\u2019s departure from the poll body. Bautista tendered his resignation which was supposedly effective by the end of the year but was accepted by the President in October.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista\u2019s resignation came after the House justice committee, with a vote of 19-2, officially dismissed an impeachment complained filed against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Commission on Elections (Comelec) Sheriff Abas as the new poll chief in replacement of Andres &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":133830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[34882,2444,34881],"class_list":["post-133803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-new-comelec-chief","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-sheriff-abas","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}