Questions about a standee on offices of the Commission on Elections were raised online as electoral aspirants file their certificates of candidacy (COC) for the 2025 midterm elections . The COC filing, which marks the opening of the election season in the country, is being held until October 8. Senatorial and party-list representative aspirants can file at the Manila Hotel’s Tent City while local posts applicants can submit their COCs in different Comelec offices.
As electoral aspirants officially declared their intentions to run in the upcoming polls, some Filipinos have noticed a standee set up in one one of the Comelec offices, where aspirants pose for photos after submitting their COCs. This was particularly noticed when a journalist posted a photo of veteran actress Vilma Santos-Recto filing her COC at the provincial Comelec office at the Batangas Provincial Capitol, together with her sons TV host Luis Manzano and Ryan Christian . The “Star of All Seasons” is running for Batangas governor with her son Luis seeking the vice governor post.
Ryan, meanwhile, is aiming to represent Batangas’ Sixth District. In their photo, many noticed that a standee of Comelec Chair George Garcia could be seen on the sidelines of photo-taking area, leaving online users puzzled. “At bakit may pa-standee ka, @ChairGEGarcia?” an online user commented, zooming on the life-size figure.
“Uhmm, @COMELEC, bakit may standee ni Comelec Chair Garcia? Mukha tuloy endorser. Tsk, tsk, tsk..
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