Mangudadatu, however, will return as Governor of Sultan Kudarat on June 30, having been elected last May 12 to a three-year ...

THE Supreme Court has upheld the 2022 decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to cancel the certificate of ...

Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman emphasized the significance of e-governance in providing faster and more transparent ...

A Supreme Court ruling abandoning the “second placer rule” in election cases has become a test for recent poll disputes.

The second placer in local elections cannot be proclaimed winner in lieu of the disqualified first placer, the Supreme Court ...

The Supreme Court (SC) has struck down the controversial “second placer rule,” long used by the Commission on Elections ...

The Supreme Court says the second-placer rule has no legal basis. It says the vice governor should become governor when the ...

During the 2022 gubernatorial race, Datu Pax Ali secured a total of 301,404 votes, winning the gubernatorial seat over Sharifa Akeel, who received 47,348 votes.

Candidates who garnered the second highest number of votes, or the “second placers” in elections, cannot be proclaimed when ...