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Solon seeks postponement
of barangay elections

Rep. Jerry Treñas (Lone District of Iloilo City), who chairs the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability, yesterday reiterated his call for a swift action to postpone the 2013 barangay elections, a press release from his office said.

Treñas said that with the ongoing impeachment trial against Chief Justice Renato Corona and the looming 2013 national elections, Congress has a very limited window of opportunity to give full attention to fast-tracking the passage of a measure, that would move the barangay polls to a more suitable schedule.

The holding of the barangay election only five months after the national polls, will put undue financial strain on the national budget, apart from the partisan conflict that will still be too intense if elections are conducted almost simultaneously in one year, he added in the press release.

Treñas authored House Bill 6005 that seeks to reset the 2013 barangay elections to the last Monday of October 2015. “The spirit of our laws and the practical realities of the highly-political and divisive nature of the upcoming May elections, dictate that the barangay polls be postponed to a later date,” he said.

It will also save the government millions of pesos in scarce public funds that could be used to finance programs in education, infrastructure development, and other development programs, the press release added.*

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Solon seeks postponement of barangay elections