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PR-014-2019
24 February 2019

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Accreditation of Filipino Community Organizations as Partners of COMELEC for the Conduct of Overseas Voting for the 2019 National Elections

The Philippine Embassy in Muscat informs the public that the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC), pursuant to Resolution No. 10499, has approved the guidelines for the accreditation of Filipino Community, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) and Civil Society Organizations as partners of the COMELEC in connection with the conduct of overseas voting for the 2019 National Elections.

All parties requesting for accreditation shall be required to submit the following:

  1. A duly accomplished accreditation application form;
  2. List of officers and members including their addresses and contact numbers; and
  3. Photocopies of valid IDs of officers and members.

The period for the filing of accreditation is from 15 February 2019 to 31 March 2019. Application forms may be obtained from the Embassy, the COMELEC-Office for Overseas Voting, and may be downloaded from the COMELEC website (www.comelec.gov.ph) and the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs website.

The duly accredited organizations shall observe the following guidelines:

  1. They shall be under the supervision and control of the COMELEC and the Embassy;
  2. They shall assist in organizing, managing, or operating the Voting Centers including field and mobile voting;
  3. They shall coordinate the activities of all NGOs and private organizations that are interested in involving themselves in the elections for the purpose of ensuring free, clean, honest and fair conduct of elections;
  4. They shall deploy volunteers who may assist in the operations of the voting centers and who may also provide assistance to registered voters during the voting period;
  5. They shall assist the COMELEC and the Embassy by monitoring the conduct of voting and by being made a member of the Task Force that may be organized by the COMELEC and the Embassy for the purpose;
  6. They shall assist in the dissemination of information to educate and fully inform the public about election laws, procedures, decisions, and other matters relative to the work and duties of the COMELEC and the Embassy and on the necessity of clean, free, orderly and honest electoral process;
  7. They shall observe the voting to ensure free, honest and orderly voting process;
  8. They shall be strictly non-partisan and impartial during the voting period;
  9. They shall undertake to police their ranks and prevent infiltration by persons or groups of persons who may, directly or indirectly, destroy its character of non-partisanship and impartiality;
  10. They shall commit to submit themselves to the direct and immediate control and supervision, and comply with the orders, of the COMELEC and the Embassy, in the performance of their functions and activities provided by law, and such other functions and activities which the COMELEC or the Embassy may assign;
  11. They shall not be supported by or be under the influence of any foreign government or any of its agencies and instrumentalities, or any foreigner, whether natural or juridical person; and
  12. They shall not solicit or receive, directly or indirectly, any contribution or aid of whatever form or nature from any foreign government or any of its agencies, or any foreigner, whether natural or juridical person.

The full text of the Resolution may be viewed on this link on the COMELEC website: http://www.comelec.gov.ph/?r=OverseasVoting/Resolutions