2025 Philippine Elections Blog: One year to go before midterm polls
It’s one year to go before the May 2025 midterm elections in the Philippines. Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman George Garcia said the poll body is in the “thick of preparations” not just for May 12, 2025 elections but also for the December 5, 2025 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (BSK) Elections.
Barring hitches, voters will see a lot of innovations in the upcoming elections. There will be a new provider for the country’s automated election system. Internet voting will become an option for overseas voters.
Comelec will also facilitate mall voting for select voting precincts and early voting for senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and “heavily” pregnant women.
The poll body is supposed to complete within the first quarter of 2024 the procurement of software and hardware materials that will be used in next year’s elections. The P(hilippine Pesos)18-billion lease contract for a new automated election system was awarded to South Korean firm Miru Systems.
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