Tag: consanguinity

Con-com rules incumbent gov’t officials cannot be succeeded in their posts by relatives

Ban applies to relatives within the first and second degrees of consanguinity and affinity, body says   (Eagle News) — The Consultative Commission on Monday ruled that an incumbent government official’s relatives  should be banned from succeeding him or her regardless of position. The body tasked to look into the 1987 Constitution said that relatives within the first and second degrees of consanguinity and affinity could not assume said position of the incumbent from the barangay up to the […]