Bill to extend barangay officials’ term filed in Senate

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MANILA, Philippines — One other invoice looking for to increase the time period of barangay officers to 6 years has been filed within the Senate.

In Senate Invoice No. 2629, Senator Imee Marcos mentioned the myriad duties of barangay officers typically hinder them from “formulating, growing, and implementing” their very own insurance policies and tasks.

Marcos has lengthy been airing her bid to increase the time period of barangay officers.

“The current time period of three years is much too brief for these officers to see their very own tasks by, since they spend the higher portion of their phrases implementing the insurance policies and tasks of the nationwide authorities and in addition to these of the town, municipal, or provincial authorities models,” mentioned Marcos, who chairs the Senate  panel on electoral reforms.

“An equally necessary cause to repair longer phrases of workplace for barangay officers is to allow the nationwide authorities to avoid wasting billions of pesos.”

In 2023 alone, Marcos mentioned the Fee on Elections required a finances of round P18 billion.

With this pattern, Marcos warned that election prices will proceed to rise, not solely due to the final improve within the costs of election supplies and manpower but additionally due to the chance that even barangay elections “will even be automated sooner or later.”

Beneath Marcos’ proposed invoice filed on April 8, the time period of workplace of all elected barangay officers shall be six years.

“No barangay elective official shall serve for greater than two consecutive phrases in the identical place. Voluntary renunciation of the workplace for any size of the time shall not be thought of as an interruption within the continuity of service for the complete time period for which the elective official was elected,” Marcos’ invoice reads.

With this proposal, the following common barangay elections shall be held on the final Monday of October 2029 and each six years thereafter.

“The time period of workplace of barangay officers elected subsequent to the effectivity of this act shall start at midday of November 30 subsequent following their election,” the invoice provides.