Updated:2024-10-27 02:56    Views:167

MANILAsw418, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has accredited 41 new party-list groups for the 2025 midterm elections.

The figure is lower than the almost 70 party-list organizations accredited during the 2022 elections, according to Comelec Chairman George Garcia.

“It’s not because we just want to reduce the number of party-lists. We want these groups to represent the marginalized sectors,” Garcia told reporters on Monday.

The poll body rejected the applications for accreditation of 142 political groups, for submitting fake documents or for lack of constitutional by-laws and other necessary requirements.

The Comelec has ordered its clerk of court to finalize within one week the official list of party-list groups participating in the 2025 elections.

The poll body is set to decide today which party-list group will replace An Waray in the House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, Garcia assured the public that the data servers to be used in the 2025 elections would be kept in three highly secured locations.

Garcia on Monday led a team of poll officials and representatives of the different citizens’ arm groups in inspecting the Vitro Data Center in Makati.

Vitro is the data center arm of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. PLDT chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan welcomed the Comelec officials.

Vitro center has 11 layers of security and can withstand an intensity 8 earthquake.sw418

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