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President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday appointed Michael Braganza Peloton as commissioner of the Elections Commission (Comelec).
Comelec Chairman Sheriff Abbas said Peloton was nominated for the job vacated by Commissioner Luie Tito Guia, who retired last February.
Abbas shared that Peloton “joins Comelec at an exciting and challenging time.”
“We have already started preparations for the 2022 national and local elections amid the Covid-19 pandemic (coronavirus disease 2019),” he said.
Peloton, a native of Davao City, was a member of the board of the Reclamation Authority of the Philippines.
In accordance with the law, Comelec will be composed of a president and six commissioners.
The incumbent commissioners are Socorro Inting, Marlon Casquejo, Antonio Kho Jr. and Rowena Guanzon.
The electoral body has one vacancy left as the president has yet to fill the position left by commissioner Al Parreno, who also retired in February.
Among those awaiting the position are three judges from the Court of Appeals (CA): Romeo Barza, Danton Bueser and Franchise Diamante.
Barza was the former CA presiding judge and former Makati Regional Magistrate Court judge.
Bueser was a former congressman from Laguna and a member of the Electoral Tribunal of the House of Representatives.
Meanwhile, Diamante was a former member of CA’s ethics committee, tasked with investigating allegations by Senator Antonio Trillanes 4th that two of his justices accepted P50 million in bribes to stop the former mayor’s six-month suspension. the city of Makati, Jejomar Binay.
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