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Cavite 7th district special election period begins

January 25, 2023 Dennis Abrina 1096 views

TRECE MARTIRES CITY, Cavite – The special elections for the 7th district of Cavite province started officially – on January 26, 2023, set by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

The special polls are to fill the “vacant seat” of the 7th legislative district of Cavite left by now DOJ (Department of Justice) Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla when he was appointed by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in his cabinet.

As a start, the Provincial Comelec Office led a kick-off ceremony by Atty. Mitzele Morales-Castro, together with the election officers of Tanza, Amadeo, Indang, and Trece Martires City and Provincial Police Director Police Col. Christopher Olazo and local police chiefs of Tanza, Amadeo, Indang, and Trece Martires City that started in Bahay Sanayan Building, Capitol Compound, Barangay San Agustin, Trece Martires City.

The said officers of the Comelec and Cavite Police went around Amadeo, Indang, Tanza, and Trece Martires to monitor the checkpoints in such areas for the implementation of prohibitions during the election period in the said district.

Among those to be implemented that are strictly prohibited during the election are the carrying of firearms or deadly weapons or “gun ban,”; illegal release of prisoners before and after elections; alteration of the territory of a precinct; use of security personnel or bodyguards by candidates; threatening any election officials, transfer of officers and employees in the civil service including public school teachers; suspension of any elective provincial, city, municipal or barangay officers, raising of funds thru dancers, lotteries, cockfights et al.; wagering upon the result of election and vote buying are strictly prohibited.

Not allowed are the removal or destroy election propaganda, giving donations or gifts in cash or in kind, or construction or maintenance of barangay-funded roads and bridges.

Four candidates will compete for the congressional seat: independent candidates Jose Angelito Domingo Aguinaldo, Melencio Loyola De Sagun Jr., and Crispin Diego Diaz Remulla – son of DOJ Sec. Crispin Remulla – running under the National Unity Party (NUP).

The candidates have 30 days to campaign in the elections to be held on special polls, which will be automated on Feb. 25, 2023.

According to Atty. Mitzele Castro, all registered voters from the municipalities of Amadeo, Indang, Tanza, and Trece Martires City, will be participating in this electoral exercise, which is being held because of the existence of a vacancy of the post of representative for the said legislative district as certified by the House of Representatives in its House Resolution No. 100 dated July 27, 2022.

During the joint security command conference held at the Tanza Oasis Hotel and Resort in Tanza on Jan. 17, in a meeting convened by Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Marlon Casquejo, commissioner in charge for the special elections, counting and canvassing of votes will be via the Automated Elections System, using the vote counting machine (VCM) and the Consolidation and Canvassing System (CCS).

Chiefs of police Major Dennis Villanueva of Tanza, Major Edward Cantano of Indang, Major. Gilbert Derla of Amadeo and Lt. Col. Jonathan Asnan of Trece Martires City, and Election Officers Joan Erni of Tanza, Enriqueta Danieles of Amadeo, Regina Gonzales of Indang, and Yolanda Ramos of Trece Martires City will work together to control checkpoints in their respective towns and cities.

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