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Comelec begins preparing for 2025 BSKE this December

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has officially started preparations for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) scheduled for December 1, 2025, saying a 10-day nationwide voter registration for the village polls will start from July 1 to July 11, 2025.

In a Balitaan forum, Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia assured the public that the upcoming BSKE will see major improvements, guided by the lessons learned from previous electoral exercises.

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Garcia said among the moves to improve the coming village polls is the removal of the barangay certificate as a requirement for voter registration.

The poll chief cited recent cases of mass issuance of barangay certificates that could enable irregular transfers of voter registration.

Garcia also confirmed that the elections will push through on December 1, 2025, unless Congress passes a law to postpone them.

He said registration includes reactivation, transfer of registration and new voters. The Comelec expects some one million new voters to register during the 10-day period.

“If our current voters are 68,431,965, let’s say we can register 1 million in 10 days, we will have 69.5 million voters for BSKE. That is still a very conservative estimate of those who will register in 10 days,” he said.

At the same time, Garcia said there will be no voter registration in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) despite the conduct of the Bangsamoro Parliamentary Election (BPE) in October.

“We will not have registration in BARMM. We don’t want to create the impression that those who register in the 10 days from July to August will vote for BPE,” he said.

“Registration in the BARMM is suspended. So, that those who will vote for BPE are only those voters in the NLE (national and local elections). There will be no resumption of voter registration in the BARMM although there will be election in October,” Garcia added.

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