A voter places her ballot in a PCOS machine after voting at precinct 169 of San Antonio High School in Makati City.
INQUIRER file photo / ARNOLD ALMACEN
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed into law the bill suspending the 2022 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections originally scheduled for December 2022.
The law, labeled Republic Act No. 11935, was uploaded to the Official Gazette on Wednesday. It appears to have been signed on Monday.
Under the law, the 2022 elections would be delayed for almost another year, as the next barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections would be held on the last Monday of October 2023, and every three years after that.
Marcos signed the bill into law two weeks after both the House of Representatives and the Senate ratified bicameral conference committee reports containing the consolidated version of each chamber’s bill.
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