By SUNDY LOCUS, GMA Integrated News
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday kicked off the ten-day nationwide voter registration for the 2025 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE).
According to the poll body, applicants may register from Monday to Sundays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at any satellite registration sites or at their respective Comelec office of the election officer (OEO).
In Metro Manila, registrants may apply in any participating Register Anywhere Program (RAP) sites.
The Comelec reiterated that there will be no transfer of local registration records during the voter registration period. However, other types of applications will be accepted including:
- registration
- change of name and status
- correction of entries
- reactivation of registration records
- inclusion of registration records
- reinstating of name in the list of voters
The following may also be processed: applications for reactivation, reactivation with change or correction, reactivation with updating of records, updating of records of person with disability (PWD), senior citizen, and members of indigenous peoples (IPs) and indigenous cultural communities (ICCs), and transfer from overseas to local only.
The Comelec previously announced that the 10-day nationwide registration for BSKE will start from August 1 to 10, 2025.
The initial schedule in July was suspended following the ratification of a bicameral conference committee report seeking to extend the term of office for barangay and SK officials from three to four years, and postpone the elections to the first Monday of November 2026.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has yet to decide whether to approve or veto the proposed measure.
However, the poll body earlier said there has been “no indication” from Malacañang that the bill would be vetoed.
The 2025 BSKE is set on December 1, 2025. — VDV, GMA Integrated News
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