Over 500,00 people file COCs for Barangay polls

Aspirants for senator and other local elective positions came in trickles on the first day of filing of the certificates of candidacy for the May 2025 midterm elections.

The Office of the Ombudsman has lifted the six-month preventive suspension order it earlier issued against several mayors and barangay officials in Bohol in connection with the construction of Captain’s Peak Garden and Resort at the foot of Chocolate Hills.

Sen. Francis Tolentino is the first of the seven reelectionist senators who filed a certificate of candidacy yesterday in Manila, the Commission on Elections’ delegated place for senatorial aspirants who want to submit their COCs.

It was an ending that Meralco’s Allen Durham dreaded. He gave it his all in the PBA Governors’ Cup best-of-five quarterfinal series against Barangay Ginebra but when the smoke of battle cleared, the Bolts were once again thwarted by his nemesis Justin Brownlee.

The country's next leaders are set to submit their certificates of candidacy for the 2025 midterm elections at the Commission on Elections.