{"id":190322,"date":"2018-11-19T05:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=190322"},"modified":"2018-11-19T05:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:34:54","slug":"comelec-releases-partial-roster-of-party-lists-local-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/19\/comelec-releases-partial-roster-of-party-lists-local-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec releases partial roster of party-lists, local candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107267\" style=\"width: 4272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107267\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg 4272w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cAspirants are encouraged to check their names to appear on the official ballots,\u201d the resolution added. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21560267\">File Photo by Elmer B. Domingo &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday released the tentative list of party-list and local candidates for the May 2019 midterm polls.<\/p>\n<p>The list of candidates for party-lists, governors, vice governors, provincial board members, mayors, vice mayors, and councilors have been posted at the poll body website (http:\/\/www.comelec.gov.ph\/?r=2019NLE\/ListsOfCandidates).<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary list of senatorial candidates are not yet available as of press time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tentative list of candidates will be posted for purposes of checking the name to appear on the official ballot,\u201d the poll body said, citing Comelec Resolution No. 10420.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAspirants are encouraged to check their names to appear on the official ballots,\u201d the resolution added.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the list of party-list candidates are 124 duly-registered groups, 33 with pending motions for reconsideration, five with pending petitions for registration, and 23 others.<\/p>\n<p>Known party-lists in the tentative list are Abono, Butil, PBA, Senior Citizens, Acts-OFW, Gabriela, Magdalo, Akbayan, Bayan Muna, TUCP, Ako Bicol, CIBAC, Buhay, LPGMA.<\/p>\n<p>The list was released more than a month since the end of the filing period for Certificates of Candidacy and Certificates of Nomination and Acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>The Comelec said they will accept request for corrections on the name to appear on the official ballots until November 29.<\/p>\n<p>The poll body is looking to start printing the official ballots in January 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday released the tentative list of party-list and local candidates for the May &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":107267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190322","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}