MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will need an additional P10 billion to ensure that the 2022 national elections will be “safe, fair, and free” during the COVID-19 pandemic, according Participate PH, a nonpartisan coalition promoting political participation of Filipinos.
Coalition member Ronald Mendoza, who is dean of the Ateneo School of Government, made this remark on Thursday at the hearing of the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms and People’s Participation.
“We found a comparator estimate which suggested that we may have to spend in the order of about P10 billion in addition to what we are normally spending in order to just conduct safe, free, an…
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