TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Oct. 17 (PIA) – Bohol local officials recommended to the COMELEC to suspend the barangay elections here after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the province in the morning of October 15.
Bohol governor Edgar Chatto said the Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed a resolution asking the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) for the postponement of the barangay elections in Bohol and to grant special elections after the province has settled down from the tragedy.
Bohol has already been declared under a state of calamity.
Under Section 5 of the Omnibus Election Code, postponement or suspension of elections are granted in cases where there are conflicts, war, terrorism, and destructions of election records and paraphernalia and in “force majeure” or calamity.
Latest information says, COMELEC commissioners will tackle the resolution/request en banc today whether or not to grant the postponement of the barangay elections on October 28 in Bohol, especially in areas that are badly damaged by the earthquake. (PIA7-Bohol/ECBongos
