The filing of Certificates of Candidacy (COCs) for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) will start on Monday, August 28, and will end on September 2.
The election period, which includes a gun ban, will also start on Monday and will end on November 29.
In Bacolod City the filing of COCs will be held at Robinsons Place Bacolod in Barangay Mandalagan to allow for a bigger venue, Elections Officer Kathrina Trinio-Caña said on Tuesday, August 22.
There will be no filing of COCs at the Bacolod Comelec office because it will be too crowded, she said.
The filing will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Saturday next week, she said.
Candidates can download their COC forms from the Comelec website.
They must print three copies on long size bond papers that should be filled up, notarized, and submitted with documentary stamps and their recent passport size photos, Trinio-Caña said.
Candidates can check with the COMELEC Bacolod office if their COCs are properly filled out ahead of the start of the filing on Monday, she said.
Checkpoints will be put up with the start of the election period, she also said.
The Comelec said prohibited during the election period are the following:
*Bearing, carrying or transporting firearms or other deadly weapons in public places, unless authorized in writing by the Commission;
*Use of security personnel or bodyguards by candidates;
*Alteration of territory of a precinct or establishment of a new precinct;
*Raising of funds through dances, lotteries, cockfights;
*Vote-buying and vote-selling;
*Wagering upon result of election;
*Transfer or detail of officers and employees in the civil service, including public school teachers;
*Coercing, threatening, intimidating or terrorizing any election official or employee in the performance of his election functions or duties;
*Illegal release of prisoners before and after elections;
*Organization or maintenance of reaction forces, strike forces or similar forces; and
*Suspension of local elective officials.
The campaign period will be from October 19 to 28, and Election Day will be on October 30, the Comelec said.*