{"id":67755,"date":"2015-12-20T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67755"},"modified":"2015-12-20T08:39:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T13:39:01","slug":"comelec-to-release-initial-list-of-candidates-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/20\/comelec-to-release-initial-list-of-candidates-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec to release initial list of candidates on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11998\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png\" alt=\"comelec\" width=\"417\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png 417w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Commission on Elections (Comelec) says the initial roster of aspirants to be released on Wednesday would be close to the final list of candidates to be included in the ballots for the May 2016 national and local polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we want by Dec. 23, when we come out with the list, although it will not yet be final, more or less, we want it to be close to the final list of candidates already,\u201d said Comelec Chairman Juan Andres Bautista.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Commission en banc postponed the release of the official list of candidates from Dec. 15 to Dec. 23, since there are still pending several cases involving possible candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista said the list to be released on Wednesday is still subject to changes until Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initial list, we want to have it by Dec. 23&#8230; And when can we no longer edit the list? We want it on Jan. 8,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Among the possible candidates in the forthcoming polls with disqualification cases before the Comelec are presidential aspirants Sen. Grace Poe and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>Poe is facing four petitions to have her Certificate of Candidacy (CoC) cancelled owing to questions on her citizenship and residency qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>She has already been disqualified by the Comelec First and Second Divisions and has two pending motions for reconsideration (MRs) before the Commission en banc.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Duterte is facing disqualification case before the Comelec First Division due to persistent questions on the validity of Martin Dino\u2019s CoC, which would render Duterte\u2019s substitution void.<\/p>\n<p>The Comelec is looking to start the printing of official ballots by the third week of January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Commission on Elections (Comelec) says the initial roster of aspirants to be released on Wednesday would be close to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":11998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-67755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-original","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67755","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=67755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}