Tag: COMELEC chair Andres Bautista

Lower House impeaches Comelec Chair Bautista; Senate President Pimentel says yearend trial “very possible”

(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Wednesday impeached Commission on Elections Chair Andres Bautista, after it rejected the House justice panel resolution dismissing the complaint against him. More than 100—137 to be exact—voted against the resolution that said the complaint filed by lawyer Ferdinand Topacio and former Rep. Jacinto Paras against Bautista was junked on the grounds it was insufficient in form. Seventy five voted for the resolution, while two abstained. Only at […]

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Senate committee on banks to summon Comelec Chair Bautista over LDB accounts

Committee to ask Bautista to waive his right enshrined in Bank Secrecy Law (Eagle News) — The Senate committee on banks, financial institutions and currencies is set to summon Commission on Elections Chair Andres Bautista in its next hearing on the possible violations committed by Luzon Development Bank of the Anti-Money and Laundering law. Senator Francis Escudero, Senate committee chair, said this was so Bautista could shed light on the process he underwent to open […]

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COMELEC confirms change in “script” of transparency server

  (Eagle News) — The Commisson on Elections on Thursday confirmed that it has allowed the changing of the script of the poll body’s transparency server, but that this was not to revise the hash code of the system. COMELEC chair Andres Bautista said the transparency server was tweaked only to correct the error in the letter ñ. According to the poll body, Marlon Garcia, the project manager of Smartmatic, only corrected one character of the […]

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