{"id":275958,"date":"2020-11-19T21:13:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=275958"},"modified":"2020-11-19T21:13:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:13:03","slug":"comelec-to-await-house-say-on-vacated-seat-after-solons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/19\/comelec-to-await-house-say-on-vacated-seat-after-solons-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec to await House say on vacated seat after solon\u2019s death"},"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\">The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will wait for the decision of the House of Representatives if it would declare a vacancy or order a special election following the death of Cebu 1st District Rep. Raul del Mar early this week. (<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 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will wait for the decision of the House of Representatives if it would declare a vacancy or order a special election following the death of Cebu 1st District Rep. Raul del Mar early this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we would do is to wait for the declaration of vacancy by the House leadership and will say that there is a need to conduct a special poll,\u201d Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez, however, said the holding of a special election has a time limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut remember, special elections should not be held within one year before the next elections. It has a natural time limit, being May 9, 2021,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The next national and local elections will be held in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez also said it is the prerogative of the House leadership to just declare a caretaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are just waiting to be told to conduct special polls,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Cebu legislator died on Monday. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that the House named Speaker Lord Allan Velasco as legislative caretaker of del Mar\u2019s district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will wait for the decision of the House of Representatives if it would declare &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":210340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275958","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\/275958","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=275958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275959,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275958\/revisions\/275959"}],"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=275958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}