Seventy-seven national positions will be up for grabs in the 2022 Philippine elections. These include 1 president, 1 vice president, 12 senators, and 63 party-list representatives.
Aspirants for these posts will make their bids official when they file their certificates of candidacy (COCs) from October 1 to 8, 2021.
The Commission on Elections has moved the venue for the COC filing from the Comelec central office in Intramuros, Manila, to the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila in Pasay City, to be able to enforce physical distancing during the weeklong event.
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Ex-foreign undersecretary and Duterte spokesman Ernesto Abella files his COC for president. pic.twitter.com/x6pBeMavA8
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Karla Estrada is the third nominee of party-list group Tingog, whose representative in the House, Yedda Romualdez, voted against ABS-CBN's franchise renewal application in 2020. pic.twitter.com/R6vNCheuCG
Noli De Castro says he’s getting out of his political retirement to finish his unfinished business in the Senate. He became a senator in 2001, garnering the most number of votes, but was unable to complete his six-year term as he ran for VP and won in 2004. pic.twitter.com/gV1Ruy5mWc
Former vice president and television news anchor Noli de Castro is back in politics after an 11-year hiatus.
De Castro filed his certificate of candidacy for senator on Friday, October 8, at around 10:30 am before the Commission on Elections (Comelec), cementing his return to politics after his term as vice president ended in 2010.
Reelectionist senator Leila de Lima will have to pull a rare feat of campaigning from jail and seek a second six-year term at the Philippine Senate, nearly five years since her arrest over what she and her supporters called “trumped-up” drug charges.
De Lima, through her representative, filed her Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for the Senate on the last day of filing on Friday, October 8.
