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CEBU CITY, Philippines — The marketing campaign interval for native candidates within the Could 2025 elections begins as we speak, and the Fee on Elections in Central Visayas (Comelec-7) has issued some essential reminders.
Comelec-7 Director Francisco Pobe emphasised that civil service workers are strictly prohibited from participating in any partisan political exercise or electioneering.
“Sa gobyerno, mga empleyado man ta coated by the civil service, bawal gyud completely nga mo apil-apil ta aning mga partisan political exercise, in any other case, there will likely be sanctions, administrative and felony relying on the actions that you’ve dedicated in opposition to sa exercise sa atong piniliay,” Pobe stated throughout a information discussion board.
(In authorities, as workers coated by civil service guidelines, it’s completely prohibited for us to take part in partisan political actions. In any other case, there will likely be sanctions—administrative or felony—relying on the character of the violation.)
He clarified that solely job order (JO) and contract of service (COS) workers are allowed to have interaction in electioneering.
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“Wala could gitawag nga employer-employee relationship, wala man silay appointment sa civil service,” Pobe stated.
(There isn’t a employer-employee relationship of their case, and they don’t maintain civil service appointments.)
Nonetheless, JOs and COS workers should not allowed to take part in marketing campaign actions throughout workplace hours, from 8 a.m. to five p.m., as this might represent an abuse of state sources, Pobe added.
“Wala could gitawag nga employer-employee relationship, wala man silay appointment sa civil service,” Pobe stated.
(The federal government pays them wages for his or her designated duties and duties, not for campaigning for politicians.)
In the meantime, members of the electoral board, together with academics, have been additionally reminded to stay non-partisan throughout the elections, stated Dr. Ida Cabantan, the regional chief administrator of the Division of Training (DepEd-7).
“As public servants, we have to uphold integrity and being non-partisan and being honest, particularly throughout elections. And the regional director retains on reminding [that to] our academics and non-teaching personnel who will likely be serving throughout the elections,” Cabantan stated.
Because the 2024-2025 faculty yr ends in April—throughout the marketing campaign interval—Cabantan acknowledged that native politicians could go to colleges for recognition and commencement rites.
“RD (Regional Director Salustiano Jimenez) retains on reminding (the academics) nga dili lang gyud magpakita og asa sila (to not present who’s the politician they’re supporting) kay being a authorities personnel, we have to uphold our integrity,” Cabantan stated.
(Regional Director Salustiano Jimenez retains reminding academics to not present any political bias as a result of, as authorities workers, we should uphold our integrity.)
Moreover, Cabantan famous {that a} collection of conferences could be held within the coming days to remind academics to chorus from expressing political beliefs on-line.
“Though we’ve got a freedom of expression, we have to uphold once more our integrity as public servants and particularly naa mi sa DepEd (particularly as members of DepEd),” Cabantan added.
In Area 7, a complete of 12,000 academics will function members of the electoral board.
The native marketing campaign interval runs till Could 10, with over 41,000 candidates nationwide formally launching their campaigns as we speak, March 28. /clorenciana
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