{"id":79270,"date":"2016-07-30T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=79270"},"modified":"2016-07-30T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T14:44:21","slug":"comelec-full-blast-sk-barangay-polls-oct-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/30\/comelec-full-blast-sk-barangay-polls-oct-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec in full blast for SK, Barangay polls on Oct. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_61530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61530\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/800px-CommissiononElectionsPhilippinesjf0255_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61530\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/800px-CommissiononElectionsPhilippinesjf0255_05.jpg\" alt=\"Commission on Elections (Comelec) at the Palacio del Gobernador Bldg., Gen. Luna St. cor. Andres Soriano Jr. Ave, Intramuros, Manila (Photo: Ramon FVelasquez\/Wikipedia)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/800px-CommissiononElectionsPhilippinesjf0255_05.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/800px-CommissiononElectionsPhilippinesjf0255_05-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commission on Elections (Comelec) at the Palacio del Gobernador Bldg., Gen. Luna St. cor. Andres Soriano Jr. Ave, Intramuros, Manila (Photo: Ramon FVelasquez\/Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is going full blast with its preparations for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls on October 31.<\/p>\n<p>This after Comelec Chairman Juan Andres Bautista said that the planned Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) is no longer happening, thus, the forthcoming elections will push through as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNgayon, ang direction nila ay magkaroon ng Constituent Assembly\u2026 kung kata\u2019t mukhang tuloy na tuloy na tayo para sa ting halalan sa October 31,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The poll body chief noted that he was told by House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, that the amendment of the 1987 Constitution will be done but through a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKahapon, ako ay nakipag-usap kay Speaker Alvarez at tinning ko kung mekong posibilidad na pagsasamahin yung Barangay at SK at yung Con-Con. Pero sabi nga niya sakin ngayon, ang direction ay magkaroon ng Constituent Assembly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista earlier pushed for the postponement of the village and youth polls and synchronised with the election of delegates for the proposed Con-Con that would result to a surplus of at least P6 million for the government.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, some lawmakers have supported the proposal. They are looking to hold the Con-Con in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday has changed his mind, saying that amendments in the 1987 Constitution can just be done with Congress sitting as a Constituent Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is going full blast with its preparations for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":61530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[11787,3716,6833],"class_list":["post-79270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-barangay-polls","tag-comelec","tag-sk","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79270","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=79270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}