The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that it did not include in their 2023 proposed budget the extra funding needed if the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections would not push through this December.
An angry Rodrigo Duterte last week ordered the arrest of barangay captains who had failed to strictly carry out the quarantine protocols imposed by the national government to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease.
The quarantine pass has become the gold standard in barangay-level containment because it makes for an utterly simple strategy: no pass, no go. But it’s not required by any of the guidelines of the task force battling Covid-19.