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INCREASE REGISTERED IP VOTERS – PANGANIBAN

With voter registration for the May 2019 national and local elections resuming last Monday, July 2, a party-list solon representing indigenous peoples urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to step up its efforts to ensure that more IP members are registered. “There are only an estimated 100,000 registered IP voters nationwide.” “I hope that the […]

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Autonomous Region of the Cordillera Versus the Cordillera Administrative Region – BAGUILAT

  House members have expressed support for the passage of House Bill 5343, seeking to establish the Autonomous Region of the Cordillera (ARC), which is being pushed by political leaders of the present Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). In a hearing conducted by the House committee on constitutional amendments chaired by Rep. Roger Mercado (Lone District, […]