Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr.,commonly referred to by the initials PBBM or BBM,is a Filipino politician who is the 17th and current president of the Philippines. Marcos is also the secretary of agriculture,holding the post in concurrent capacity. He previously served as a senator from 2010 to 2016. He is the second child and only son of 10th president,kleptocrat and dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and former first lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos.
Francis Joseph "Chiz" Guevara Escudero is a Filipino lawyer and politician serving as a Senator since 2022,and previously from 2007 to 2019. He recently served as governor of Sorsogon from 2019 to 2022,and was the representative for Sorsogon's 1st district from 1998 to 2007,as well as House Minority Leader from 2004 to 2007. He unsuccessfully ran for vice president of the Philippines in the 2016 elections as the running mate of Grace Poe.
A general election was held in the Philippines on May 13,2013. It was a midterm election—the officials elected will be sworn in on June 30,2013,midway through President Benigno Aquino III's term of office.
Smartmatic,or Smartmatic SGO Group,is a multinational company that builds and implements electronic voting systems. The company also produces smart cities solutions,identity management systems for civil registration and authentication products for government applications.
Legal management or paralegal studies is an academic,vocational,and professional discipline that is a hybrid between the study of law and management. Often,alumni of legal management programmes pursue a professional degree in law such as Juris Doctor (JD) or Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) while some profess as paralegals,law clerks,political analysts,politicians,public administrators,entrepreneurs,business executives,or pursue careers in the academe.
Benjamin "Benhur" de Castro Abalos Jr. is a Filipino lawyer and politician serving as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government since 2022. Before his appointment as DILG secretary,he last served as the Chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) under the Duterte administration from 2021 to 2022. Previously,he served as the city mayor of Mandaluyong,Metro Manila,for five terms,as congressman and as councilor of the same city. He is the son of Benjamin Abalos,a former Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and MMDA chairman. In January 2021,Abalos was appointed to the same position in the MMDA as his father following the death of Danilo Lim who died from complications of COVID-19.
Sixto Serrano Brillantes Jr. was a Filipino election lawyer who was the chairman of the Commission on Elections from 2011 to 2015. He was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III on January 16,2011,to serve the unexpired term of Chairman Jose Melo.
Jose Manuel Tadeo Icasiano "Chel" Diokno is a Filipino lawyer,educator,and human rights advocate. He serves as chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG),the founding dean of the De La Salle University College of Law,and the chairman of the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation. He has served as a special counsel of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee.
Regalado "Dodong" E. Maambong was a Filipino jurist,politician and member of the 1986 Constitutional Commission,which drafted the Constitution of the Philippines.
A general election in the Philippines took place on May 9,2016,for executive and legislative branches for all levels of government –national,provincial,and local,except for the barangay officials.
On March 27,2016,hackers under the banner "Anonymous Philippines" hacked into the website of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and defaced it. The hackers left a message calling for tighter security measures on the vote counting machines (VCM) to be used during the 2016 Philippine general election on May 9. Within the day a separate group of hackers,LulzSec Pilipinas posted an online link to what it claims to be the entire database of COMELEC and updated the post to include three mirror link to the index of the database's downloadable files. The leaked files by LulzSec Pilipinas amounts to 340 gigabytes.
Since the 2008 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao general election,the voters in the Philippines have to shade the oval that was indicated before the candidate's name,and a voting machine manufactured by Smartmatic automatically counts each ballot as it is fed into it. The results are then printed as the election return and sent electronically to the city or municipal Board of Canvassers.
Jose Callangan Calida is a Filipino lawyer. He previously served as Undersecretary of Justice under the Arroyo administration,as executive director of the Dangerous Drugs Board,as Solicitor General of the Philippines under the Duterte administration,and as the Chairman of Commission on Audit (COA) under the administration of President Bongbong Marcos.
The 2019 Philippine general election was conducted on May 13,2019. A midterm election,those elected therein will take office on June 30,2019,midway through the term of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Partido Federal ng Pilipinas is a national political party in the Philippines. It is chaired by Bongbong Marcos,president of the Philippines who won by a landslide in the 2022 election. During the run-up to the 2022 general election,the UniTeam Alliance was formed by the PFP,Lakas–CMD,HNP,and PMP,with guest candidates from other parties.
Menardo "Boy" Ilasco Guevarra is a Filipino lawyer and public servant who is the incumbent Solicitor General of the Philippines under the Marcos administration since 2022. He previously served as the Secretary of Justice and deputy executive secretary under the Duterte and Aquino administrations. Prior to his government stint,he was involved in private litigation practice as a founding partner of the Medialdea Ata Bello Guevarra &Suarez law firm since 1990. He was also an active faculty member at his alma mater Ateneo de Manila University,where he graduated in 1974. Guevarra's appointment to the Justice portfolio was confirmed by the Commission on Appointments on May 30,2018.
The 2022 Philippine general election took place on May 9,2022,for the executive and legislative branches of government at every level –national,provincial,and local –except for the barangay officials.
Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) in the Philippines are scheduled to be held on October 30,2023. The barangay,commonly translated as "village",is the smallest government authority in the country. The election shall elect the barangay captain or the chief executive of the barangay,and seven of eight members of the Sangguniang Barangay,or barangay council,in 42,027 barangays throughout the country.
The 2022 presidential campaign of Bongbong Marcos began on October 6,2021,when he filed his candidacy for the 2022 Philippine presidential election under the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas. Bongbong Marcos,a former senator of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016,is the son of former president Ferdinand Marcos.
The presidential transition of Bongbong Marcos started when former senator Bongbong Marcos won the Philippine presidential election on May 9,2022. Marcos topped the official count by the Congress of the Philippines with 31,629,783 votes. The joint bicameral Congress proclaimed Marcos as the president-elect and Sara Duterte as the vice president-elect on May 25,2022. The transition lasted until the day of the president-elect's inauguration on June 30,2022.
