SC orders Congress, Comelec to comment on BSKE postponement petition
The Supreme Court has ordered the Senate, House of Representatives, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, and Commission on Elections (Comelec) to comment within 10 days on a petition questioning the constitutionality of Republic Act 12232.
Election lawyer Romulo Macalintal filed the petition challenging RA 12232, which postpones the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections scheduled for December 1, 2025, to November 2026.
Macalintal cited a 2023 SC ruling that requires sufficiently important reasons to justify postponing the BSKE but found no such reasons in RA 12232.
The law also fixes the term of office for village and youth officials at four years, signed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on August 13.
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