May Elections
Now, let us discuss briefly the May elections.
Elections in this country have always been a heated affair. People are brutalized in the process or even killed outright.
Under a weak government, it is too much to expect that bloodshed would be prevented during the electoral campaign. But we can probably help as lawyers to lessen the occasion for it or the cheating that people believe has become endemic to any electoral exercise.
City and Provincial Prosecutors
Present in this convention of the IBP are provincial and city prosecutors.
Under the election law, they are members of the Provincial or City Election Board of Canvassers.
At the provincial level, the Provincial Prosecutor sits with the Comelec Provincial Election Officer or senior lawyer of the regional Office of the Comelec as chair; the Provincial Superintendent of Schools. One representative each of the majority party and the dominant opposition make up the rest of the members.
At the city level, the City Prosecutor sits with the Comelec City Election Registrar or a Comelec lawyer as chair; the City Superintendent of Schools. One representative each of the majority party and the dominant opposition make up the rest of the members.
2007 Elections, Terrorism
