{"id":226536,"date":"2019-08-12T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T10:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=226536"},"modified":"2019-08-12T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T10:02:18","slug":"comelec-exec-wants-stricter-rules-on-party-list-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/12\/comelec-exec-wants-stricter-rules-on-party-list-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec exec wants stricter rules on party-list accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“We have been very liberal with some groups. We are going to be strict. I am going to be strict now. That is the result of this issue (of former National Youth Commission Chairperson Ronald Cardema). Tell the Party-List Coalition that I am going to be very strict now with registration,” Commissioner Ma. Rowena Amelia Guanzon said in a statement Monday. (File Photo By Elmer B. Domingo – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— An official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said she wants a stricter policy in the accreditation of party-list organizations that are looking to represent marginalized sectors at the House of Representatives in the May 2022 polls.<\/p>\n

“We have been very liberal with some groups. We are going to be strict. I am going to be strict now. That is the result of this issue (of former National Youth Commission Chairperson Ronald Cardema). Tell the Party-List Coalition that I am going to be very strict now with registration,” Commissioner Ma. Rowena Amelia Guanzon said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n

At the same time, she noted that she will ask other commissioners to do the same in approving accreditations of party-list groups.<\/p>\n

“If they do not meet the documentary requirements, or they lack the requirements, I will deny their registration,” Guanzon said.<\/p>\n

Aside from adopting strict rules, she is also looking to introduce additional requirements which include the use of names of popular politicians as names of the party-list group.<\/p>\n

“Those party-list groups, which use the name of any politician or living person, must have the consent of that person under oath,” the Comelec commissioner added.<\/p>\n

She said that they will also require groups to disclose upon registration their sex-disaggregated data.<\/p>\n

“How many men? How many women? How many LGBTs?” Guanzon added.<\/p>\n

It can be recalled that the Comelec First Division has cancelled the nomination of Cardema as the first nominee of Duterte Youth party-list for being overage.<\/p>\n

On August 7, a day after he was declared as ineligible to represent the organization, the chairperson of the party-list group submitted a new set of nominees.<\/p>\n

Based on their certificate of nomination, Cardema is the first nominee while his wife, Ducielle Marie is the second nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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