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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Saturday, March 3, 2018
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BACOLOD City – The barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections will push through on May 14, according to Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara.
Angara stressed that there is no bill filed in the Senate seeking the postponement of the polls, only in the House of Representatives.
The barangay and SK elections were postponed two times already.
The October 2016 polls were first deferred to October 2017, and then to May this year.
Angarawas in the city to grace the General Assembly of the Liga ng mga Barangay of Iloilo province at the SMX Convention Center at SM City-Bacolod.
About 1,700 barangay officials attended the assembly.
Angara, chairman of the Senate committees on ways and means and local government, also informed barangay officials of the laws passed under his committees.
“Naglunsad kami ng pag-review at revise ng Local Government Code sa tulong ng DILG (Department of Interior and Local Government) at ngtatlong panel of experts,” Angara said. “The panels identified three areas where barangays can be strengthened, such as the delivery of service, extending the term of office of the barangay officials and regulatory functions.”
Angara also said he is seeking reforms into the Local Government Code.
The reforms will ensure a “meaningful and equitable distribution of resources and powers against the backdrop of charter change that will pave the way the shift to federalism,” Angara said.
“While the wheels of charter change have already started to turn, there are alternative paths of reform worth pursuing, where we can still achieve the same goals of local autonomy and proper allocation of collective resources – perhaps in an even more expeditious manner,” Angara added.
Angara said the governmental shift to federalism will still undergo a long legislative process, requiring “substantial amendments to the very foundation of the country’s laws and policies.”/PN
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