The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Friday that appointed government officials who will be chosen as nominees of party-list groups participating in the May 10 polls should also resign from their posts.
Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal noted that the resignation of government officials who are nominees of such party-list organizations is provided for in Resolution No. 8697 which was issued by the poll body last November 11.
“The Commission issued Resolution 8697 providing that nominees of the political party organizations will be considered ipso facto resigned from their appointive offices upon acceptance of their nomination,” he said.
According to Larrazabal, they will know who will be the party-list groups’ nominees since the organizations are ordered to submit to the poll body the list of their nominees.
Each organization is given a maximum of five nominees. The deadline for the filing of nominees is on March 26.
With this, Larrazabal advised the organizations to immediately submit their nominees and strictly follow the deadline.
After the last day of the filing, the Comelec will publish the names of the organizations, including their acronyms and nominees.
Larrzabal clarified, however, that a nominee who has not yet accepted to be a candidate of a particular group is not required to resign.
“Unless they accepted the nomination, they are not considered nominees of the party-list organization and they are not required to resign,” he said.
Although there are 187 party-list groups listed in the official ballots, they are not all accredited to join the polls since some of them have pending cases before the poll body.
Larrazabal said the poll body will release an official list of those who were accredited along with those not accredited. [PNA]
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