President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former National Commission on Muslim Filipinos head Saidamen Balt Pangarungan as ad interim chairman of the Commission on Elections. Read more👇
President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former National Commission on Muslim Filipinos head Saidamen Balt Pangarungan as ad interim chairman of the Commission on Elections.
“The directive of the President is to ensure an honest, peaceful, credible and free elections,” newly-appointed acting presidential spokesman Martin Andanar said in a Palace briefing Tuesday. Garcia is a veteran election lawyer who previously represented Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos in his 2016 vice presidential electoral protest, while Neri was an undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.