2 Comelec commissioners to retire in February 2025, says Garcia

Commissioners Marlon Casquejo (L) and Socorro Inting (R) of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). – Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia said Friday, November 29, 2024, that the two commissioners are set to retire by February next year, or three months ahead of the 2025 midterm polls. Their retirement would leave the six-man poll body with only four commissioners by then.| PHOTOS: Cathy Miranda of Inquirer.net and official Facebook page of the Philippine Embassy in Czech Republic

MANILA, Philippines — Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia said two commissioners are set to retire by February next year, or three months ahead of the 2025 midterm polls.

Garcia said in a press conference at the Palacio del Gobernador in Intramuros District, Manila, on Friday that Comelec Commissioners Socorro Inting and Marlon Casquejo “will be officially retiring on February 2, 2025,” leaving the six-man constitutional body with just four commissioners by then.

Garcia hailed Inting and Casquejo for their crucial role in the successful conduct of the 2019 and 2022 elections.

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“[T]he Comelec … will lose two of our veteran [commissioners]” in the middle of preparations for the May 12, 2025 elections, the Comelec chief noted.

Inting and Casquejo served as chairpersons of the Comelec’s First Division and Second Division, respectively.

Among the members of the Comelec First Division were poll body Commissioners Aimee Ferolino and Ernesto Maceda Jr., while the members of the Comelec Second Division include Commissioners Rey Bulay and Nelson Celis.