SENATOR Aquilino Pimentel III wants to include party-list groups in local absentee voting.
Pimentel’s Senate Bill No. 3387 seeks to amend Section 12 of Republic Act No. 7166, or the “Synchronized National and Local Elections and Electoral Reforms Act”, to include a party-list representative in the list of those who can be elected by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police and other government officers and employees who are duly registered voters and who, on election day, may temporarily be assigned to perform election duties in places where they are not registered voters.
At present, RA 7166 covers only the elections for President, Vice President and senators. “Executive Order No. 157 was the first piece of legislation that provided for a system of local absentee voting. Section 7 of this EO provided that for the purpose of the 1987 congressional election, absentee voting would only be applied to the elections for senator,” Pimentel said.
He said that in 1991, Section 12 of RA 7166 expanded the coverage of EO157 by including the positions of President and Vice President in the positions to be voted for under the local absentee voting. In 1995, RA 7941 or the “Party-List System Act” was enacted into law, paving the way for the first Party-List Elections in 1998. Bernadette E. Tamayo
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