Comelec targets female registrants for ‘22 polls

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) is ramping up registration for the 2022 National and Local polls by targeting females through a new activity this month.

The poll body tapped its Gender and Development Office (GAD) that will hold a special registration beginning March 9 until March 11 for local potential voters and beginning March 8 until March 10 for those who would be outside the country during the polls.

The Comelec said the latter would be given similar treatment when applying at the Philippine posts and embassies abroad, Philippine Satellite Offices in the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) and the Palacio del Gobernador, Intramuros, Manila.

The Comelec said it would commemorate the Women’s Month by installing banners and tarpaulins colored purple the color associated with women’s rights. The poll regulatory body said all its employees are required to wear purple-colored clothes in all Fridays of March.

Comelec’s women commissioners, namely Rowena Amelia V. Guanzon, Socorro B. Inting, and Aimee Ferolino-ampoloquio, would also post messages on the poll body’s social networking platform.

The Comelec said it will also be participating in the month-long activities of the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW).

The country celebrates Women’s Month every March as stipulated under Presidential Proclamation 227, signed on March 17, 1988 by then-president Corazon C. Aquino, to recognize the role of women in the country’s history.