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Comelec asks Duterte to declare #Halalan2022 day as 'special non-working holiday'

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RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Campaign posters for the May 9 local and national elections adorn a fenced property in Quezon City on April 4, 2022. With a little over a month before the elections, candidates from all parties are wooing voters in traditional and non-traditional ways. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/04/28/20220404-election-campaign-posters-md-15.jpg"/><figcaption>Campaign posters for the May 9 local and national elections adorn a fenced property in Quezon City on April 4, 2022. With a little over a month before the elections, candidates from all parties are wooing voters in traditional and non-traditional ways. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has asked President Rodrigo Duterte to declare May 9, 2022, election day, as a special non-working holiday.</p><p>&quot;We signed Resolution No. 10784 requesting the President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to declare May 9, 2022 as a special non working holiday all throughout the country in connection with the National and Local Elections,&quot; Comelec chairman Saidamen Pangarungan announced Thursday.</p><p>The resolution dated April 27 said a holiday was needed &quot;to afford the registered voters the fullest opportunity to participate in the said election and exercise their right to vote.&quot; <br/> <br/>There are over 67 million <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/02/12/22/more-than-half-of-ph-voters-are-18-39-years-old-research">registered voters</a> for the 2022 elections, where some 18,000 posts are being contested. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/04/26/22/questions-on-data-and-surveys-for-halalan-2022-part-i">Statistically Speaking: Some questions on data and surveys for the Halalan 2022</a></li></ul><div><strong> RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2013495" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><div><br/> </div><div><br/> </div>

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Comelec asks Duterte to declare #Halalan2022 day as 'special non-working holiday'

RG Cruz,

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Published Apr 28, 2022 05:50 PM PHT

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