The Philippine Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, June 27, that the law signed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. which postponed the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections originally scheduled in December 2022 was unconstitutional.
to realign the budget initially allocated for the Comelec, and use the funds for pandemic recovery efforts.
The Supreme Court said despite its unconstitutionality, the October 30, 2023 polls should push through “due to legal practicality and necessity.” “In the interim, the sitting barangay and SK officials shall continue to hold office until their successors shall have been elected and qualified. This notwithstanding, the Court clarified that the continued discharge of functions by the sitting BSK officials in a ‘hold-over’ capacity, following the provisions of RA 11935, shall in no way constitute as an unconstitutional ‘legislative appointment,'” the High Court said.
Public emergency may also be considered a substantial reason for delaying the polls, but the Court added: “Reasons such as election fatigue, purported resulting divisiveness, shortness of existing term, and/or other superficial or farcical reasons, alone, may not serve as important, substantial, or compelling reasons to justify the postponement of elections.”
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