{"id":232329,"date":"2019-09-24T23:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T03:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232329"},"modified":"2019-09-24T23:51:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T03:51:11","slug":"senate-oks-bill-postponing-barangay-sk-polls-to-dec-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/24\/senate-oks-bill-postponing-barangay-sk-polls-to-dec-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate OKs bill postponing barangay, SK polls to Dec. 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_199258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199258\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Senate-building.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199258\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Senate-building.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Senate-building.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Senate-building-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bill seeks to amend Republic Act No. 9164 by moving the barangay and SK elections to Dec. 5, 2022 from the second Monday of May 2020. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/photos\/a.815377408486542\/2229446800412922\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/\">Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; A measure seeking the postponement of the 2020 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to Dec. 5, 2022 hurdled second reading in the Senate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The upper chamber approved Senate Bill No. 1043 following the adoption of several amendments.<\/p>\n<p>The bill seeks to amend Republic Act No. 9164 by moving the barangay and SK elections to Dec. 5, 2022 from the second Monday of May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It also proposes that the subsequent polls be held on the first Monday of December 2025 and every three years thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>The term of office of barangay and SK officials shall begin at noon of January 1 following their election.<\/p>\n<p>Until their successors have been duly elected, all incumbent barangay and SK officials shall remain in office, unless sooner removed or suspended for cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; A measure seeking the postponement of the 2020 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to Dec. 5, 2022 hurdled second &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":199258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232329","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=232329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232333,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232329\/revisions\/232333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}