{"id":269464,"date":"2020-09-22T04:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T08:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=269464"},"modified":"2020-09-22T04:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T08:59:59","slug":"newly-nominated-poll-exec-needs-ca-nod-before-assuming-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/22\/newly-nominated-poll-exec-needs-ca-nod-before-assuming-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-nominated poll exec needs CA nod before assuming post"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_210340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210340\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210340\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1200px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-20x13.jpeg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Sept. 17, President Rodrigo Duterte named Peloton as the new Comelec commissioner, replacing Luie Tito Guia, who retired from the Comelec in February this year. Peloton\u2019s nomination was announced on Sept. 21. (<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\u2013 Newly-nominated Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Michael Peloton needs the approval of the Commission on Appointments (CA) before he can assume his post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a regular appointee, he will assume office after he successfully hurdles the confirmation proceedings before the Commission on Appointments,\u201d the poll body said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 17, President Rodrigo Duterte named Peloton as the new Comelec commissioner, replacing Luie Tito Guia, who retired from the Comelec in February this year. Peloton\u2019s nomination was announced on Sept. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Once Peloton gets the nod of the CA, he will be serving a fresh seven-year term which will end on February 2, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner-nominee, who is from Davao City, has served as a Board Member in the Board of Directors and Management of the Philippine Reclamation Authority in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He was a technical assistant in the Presidential Management Staff of the Office of the President in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis vast experience in the field of law and information technology is seen to enable the Comelec to better respond to the challenges in preparing for an automated election amidst the Covid-19 pandemic,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez earlier said the naming of the new poll body official was a regular appointment made while Congress is in session, which means that Peloton cannot assume office immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrast this with an ad interim appointment which is made while Congress is not in session. Such an appointee can immediately assume office, subject to subsequent confirmation by the CA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Newly-nominated Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Michael Peloton needs the approval of the Commission on Appointments (CA) before he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":210340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269464","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\/269464","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=269464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269476,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269464\/revisions\/269476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}