ARTICLE 10

SECTION 3: The Congress shall enact a local government code which shall provide for a more responsive
and accountable local government structure instituted through a system of decentralization with effective
mechanisms of recall, initiative, and referendum, allocate among the different local government units their
powers, responsibilities, and resources, and provide for the qualifications, election, appointment and
removal, term, salaries, powers and functions and duties of local officials, and all other matters relating to
the organization and operation of the local units
Midyear election 2019
Philippine Daily Inquirer (2 months ago) Source: Comelec Resolution No. 10429
Elective positions Jan. 2 to 31, 2019 : Constitution of board of
12 SENATORS canvassers and board of election inspectors
243 MEMBERS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
59 PARTY-LIST REPRESENTIVES Jan. 13 to June 12, 2019 : Election period (gun
ban is enforced)
81 GOVERNORS April 13, 2019: Last day to furnish every
81 VICE GOVERNORS registered voter with a voter’s information sheet
776 MEMBERS, PROVINCIAL BOARD
1,634 MAYORS* April 13, 2019 (host country time) to May 13,
1,634 VICE MAYORS* 2019 (Philippine time) : Casting of votes by
13,540 COUNCILORS* overseas voters

P3 — expenditure limit for every voter
P5 — expenditure limit for every voter to a
candidate without any political party and
without support from any political party
P5 — expenditure limit to political parties and
party-list groups
*City and municipality levels
Source: Comelec
ELECTION CALENDAR
Oct. 11 to 12 and 15 to 17, 2018: Filing of
certificates of candidacy (COCs) for all elective
positions and filing of certificates of acceptance
of nomination of party-list groups
May 6 to 10, 2019: Testing and sealing of the
optical mark readers or vote machines
April 29 to May 1, 2019: Casting of votes by local
absentee voters
May 13, 2019: Election Day, Last day for
registered overseas voters to cast their votes,
Convening of the municipal, city, district and
provincial boards of canvassers
May 13 to 16, 2019 Count precinct results and
proclaim winning city/municipal elective officials
May 17 to 19, 2019: Canvass results and
proclaim winners for senatorial, congressional,
party-list, regional and provincial elections

Oct. 18 to Nov. 29, 2018 : Filing COCs of a June 12, 2019: End of election period; last day to
substitute for a political party candidate who file Statements of Election Contributions and
withdrew his candidacy or has died Expenditures.
SECTION 4: The President of the Philippines shall exercise general supervision over local governments.
Provinces with respect to component cities and municipalities, and cities and municipalities with respect
to component barangays shall ensure that the acts of their component units are within the scope of their
prescribed powers and functions.
Duterte creates task force on federalism

By: Nestor Corrales - Reporter / @NCorralesINQ INQUIRER.net / 10:39 AM November 05, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte has created an inter-agency task force on federalism (IATF).

Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, by the authority of the President, signed Memorandum Circular
No. 52 on October 31 but the paper was released only to the media on Monday.

In his memorandum, Duterte said, “The conduct of a public information drive and advocacy campaign at
the grassroots level is necessary to raise public awareness on Federalism and constitutional reform as well
as to ensure widest public participation in the ongoing initiatives to amend or revise the fundamental law
of the land.” He added that “constant consultations with all sectors of society is essential in every stage
of the process of constitutional reform so that all such efforts towards reform will embody the sovereign
will and reflect the ideals and aspirations of our people.”

The Secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) will be the chairperson of the
task force while the Justice secretary will serve as the vice-chair. The members of the task force include
representatives from the Office of the Cabinet Secretary, Presidential Management Staff, Presidential
Communications and Operations Office, Office of the Presidential Spokesperson, Presidential Legislative
Liaison Office, Office of the Political Adviser, Commission on Higher Education, Development Academy of
the Philippines, and University of the Philippines Law Center.

The President ordered the task force to perform the following mandate:

Develop strategies and implement such activities necessary and proper to raise public awareness on
Federalism and constitutional reform;

Prepare an Information Dissemination and Public Communication Plan to ensure an effective, efficient
and uniform undertaking of advocacy activities;

Undertake consultations with the former members of the Consultative Commit. government agencies,
the private sector, and the public in general concerning Federalism and constitutional reform;

Liaise with Congress to initiate the process of and address the roadblocks to constitutional reform; and

Perform such other functions as the President may direct.

Duterte said IATF “shall submit quarterly leports on its activities and accomplishments to the President.”

“The budgetary requirements for the operations of the IATF shall be sourced from appropriate funding
sources that the Department of Budget and Management may identify, subject to relevant law, rules and
regulations. Funding for succeeding years shall be incorporated in the budget proposal of the DILG,” he
said.