Preparations for the first ever region-wide elections in 2022 in the newly created Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Barmm) are now under way.
This after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) issued Resolution 10680 creating the Bangsamoro Registration and Accreditation Committee (BRAC).
“For this purpose, the BRAC of the Bangsamoro Election Office (BEO), composed of the regional election director, assistant regional election director and provincial election supervisor of the Province of Maguindanao is hereby created,” the Comelec en banc said in its new issuance.
The BRAC will handle the accreditation of the regional political parties, as approved by Comelec, and the registration of qualified political parties to be prescribed by the Bangsamoro Electoral Code (BEC).
It will be under the jurisdiction of the BEO, the previous Office of the Regional Election Director in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) of Comelec.
Despite getting its new name, the BEO will still remain under the supervision and control of Comelec and retains its previous functions as the Office of the Regional Election Director of ARMM.
“Based on the Resolution [10680], there is no deadline of BEO being under the control and supervision of Comelec,” Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said in a SMS.
Until the BEC is enacted, Comelec said BEO should consider the 63 barangays and municipalities of Aleosan, Carmen, Kabacan, Midsayap, Pikit, Pigkawayan, all of North Cotabato, will still be considered part of the municipalities and province where they belong before the ratification of the BARMM Organic Law (Republic Act 10054) in January last year.
This after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) issued Resolution 10680 creating the Bangsamoro Registration and Accreditation Committee (BRAC).
“For this purpose, the BRAC of the Bangsamoro Election Office (BEO), composed of the regional election director, assistant regional election director and provincial election supervisor of the Province of Maguindanao is hereby created,” the Comelec en banc said in its new issuance.
The BRAC will handle the accreditation of the regional political parties, as approved by Comelec, and the registration of qualified political parties to be prescribed by the Bangsamoro Electoral Code (BEC).
It will be under the jurisdiction of the BEO, the previous Office of the Regional Election Director in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) of Comelec.
Despite getting its new name, the BEO will still remain under the supervision and control of Comelec and retains its previous functions as the Office of the Regional Election Director of ARMM.
“Based on the Resolution [10680], there is no deadline of BEO being under the control and supervision of Comelec,” Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said in a SMS.
Until the BEC is enacted, Comelec said BEO should consider the 63 barangays and municipalities of Aleosan, Carmen, Kabacan, Midsayap, Pikit, Pigkawayan, all of North Cotabato, will still be considered part of the municipalities and province where they belong before the ratification of the BARMM Organic Law (Republic Act 10054) in January last year.