MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to publish the names and nominees of Regional Parliament Political Party (RPPP) groups that will join the May 2025 Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Parliamentary Elections (BPE).
In Resolution No. 11090 dated December 18 and made public Thursday, the seven-member Commission en banc ordered the poll body’s Education and Information Department to publish the names of seven organizations, together with their respective 40 nominees, in two newspapers.
The poll body directed its Information Technology Department to post the same on its official website, www.comelec.gov.ph.
“Let the Education and Information Department cause the publication of this Resolution in two (2) daily newspapers of general circulation in the Philippines and its widest dissemination and let the Information Technology Department post this Resolution in the official Comelec website,” it added.
Those in the list are Bangsamoro Party (BAPA), Bangsamoro People’s Democratic Party (Raayat Democratic Party), BARMM Grand Coalition (BGC), Mahardika Party (Mahardika), Moro Ako Party (Moro Ako), Progresibong Bangsamoro Party (Pro Bangsamoro Party), United Bangsamoro Justice Party (UBJP).
The Comelec also included in the resolution the percentage of male and female candidates per organization as required under the Bangsamoro Electoral Code.
For BAPA, the total male candidates is 27 (67.50 percent) while 13 are female (32.50 percent); Raayat Democratic Party, 28 males (70 percent) and 12 females (30 percent); BGC, 26 males (65 percent) and 14 females (35 percent); Mahardika Party, 27 males (67.50 percent) and 13 females (32.50 percent); Moro Ako Party, 15 males (37.50 percent) and 25 females (62.50 percent); Progresibong Bangsamoro Party, 28 males (70 percent) and 12 females (30 percent) and UBJP, 28 males (70 percent) and 12 females (30 percent).
“Whereas, Section 10, Article IV, of the Bangsamoro Electoral Code provides that at least thirty (30 percent) percent of the forty (40) nominees of a party or coalition shall be party or coalition members who are women,” it added. (PNA)