Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Partial list of qualified 2010 bets

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will release Tuesday an initial list of candidates qualified to participate in the 2010 elections.

“Tomorrow we will come out with the list of those who are qualified to run for president, vice president, senators, and probably party-list," Chairman Jose Melo told reporters in an interview Monday.

He said they included in the list people who have submitted the needed formal requirements and are capable to pursue a national campaign.

Melo said those who will not be included in the list will be given three days after the announcement of the Comelec decision to file their motion for reconsideration.

Those who will be disqualified from running are mostly "nuisance" candidates, according to Melo.

Comelec Resolution No. 8678 states that a nuisance candidate is one who “put(s) the election process in mockery or disrepute, cause(s) confusion among the voters by the similarity of names of registered candidates, or one who has no bona fide intention to run for the office."

The filing of certificates of candidacy (COC) at the Comelec main office, which ran from November 20 until midnight of December 1, drew 99 presidential hopefuls compared to 84 in 2004. Of the 84, only five were considered official candidates.

On the other hand, there are 20 vice presidential candidates who filed their COCs this year, which is one candidate shy of the 21 in the previous national elections. Of the 21, only four were allowed to run during the election proper.

For senatorial aspirants, a total of 158 filed for next year compared to only 88 in 2004. Of the 88, only 48 were declared official candidates.

A total of 68,000 candidates ran in the May 2004 elections while some 46,000 aspirants filed their COCs in the 2007 local elections.

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