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Comelec to make public CoC, spending reports

TAGAYTAY CITY — Filipinos will experience many firsts in the midterm polls on May 12, 2025, the chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Saturday.

Among the first-time features is the posting of the certificates of candidacy (CoC) of all local and national candidates and certificates of nomination and certificates of acceptance of nomination of party-lists two weeks after the end of filing.

MANY FIRSTS Commission on Elections Chairman George Erwin Garcia speaks of the many firsts that the poll body will implement in the 2025 midterm elections which would include making public the certificates of candidacy and spending reports. Garcia was guest at the National Information Summit at the Development Academy of the Philippines in Tagaytay City on Sept. 28, 2024 MARY JUDALINE PARTLOW/PNA