THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced the formal designation of Commissioner Socorro Inting as the poll body’s acting chairperson.
The commission, in a statement, also announced the reorganization of the membership of the Comelec’s two divisions.
“Acting Chairperson Inting will serve in such capacity until a new Chairperson has been appointed and assumed office. Given her stellar performance in helming the Gender and Development initiatives of the Commission these past years, and in streamlining various internal processes in the resolution of cases, we in the Commission are confident of the Honorable Acting Chair’s leadership moving forward,” says Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez.
Acting Chairperson Inting will preside over the First Division, and Commissioner Aimee Ferolino will serve as member.
The Second Division will be headed by Commissioner Marlon Casquejo as Presiding Commissioner, with Commissioner Rey Bulay as member.
Cases not yet raffled to a division, the statement read, for those filed after February 9, 2022, will be raffled to the newly constituted divisions.
Meanwhile, cases respectively raffled to the former First and Second Divisions will be retained in the concerned division in order to ensure the orderly, speedy and judicious disposition of the cases.
For this purpose, a former First Division and former Second Division are constituted as follows: Commissioner Casquejo as Presiding Commissioner, and Commissioner Ferolino as member, First Division; Acting Chairperson Inting as Presiding Commissioner, and Commissioner Bulay as member, Second Division.