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CEBU CITY, Philippines — The marketing campaign interval for native candidates within the Might 2025 elections begins right now, 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 partaking in any partisan political exercise or electioneering.
“Sa gobyerno, mga empleyado man ta lined 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 legal relying on the actions that you’ve dedicated in opposition to sa exercise sa atong piniliay,” Pobe mentioned throughout a information discussion board.
(In authorities, as workers lined 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 legal—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 might gitawag nga employer-employee relationship, wala man silay appointment sa civil service,” Pobe mentioned.
(There isn’t any employer-employee relationship of their case, and they don’t maintain civil service appointments.)
Nonetheless, JOs and COS workers usually are 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 assets, Pobe added.
“Wala might gitawag nga employer-employee relationship, wala man silay appointment sa civil service,” Pobe mentioned.
(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 lecturers, have been additionally reminded to stay non-partisan through the elections, mentioned Dr. Ida Cabantan, the regional chief administrator of the Division of Schooling (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 lecturers and non-teaching personnel who will likely be serving through the elections,” Cabantan mentioned.
Because the 2024-2025 faculty yr ends in April—through the marketing campaign interval—Cabantan acknowledged that native politicians might go to faculties for recognition and commencement rites.
“RD (Regional Director Salustiano Jimenez) retains on reminding (the lecturers) 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 mentioned.
(Regional Director Salustiano Jimenez retains reminding lecturers 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 lecturers to chorus from expressing political views on-line.
“Though now we have 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 lecturers will function members of the electoral board.
The native marketing campaign interval runs till Might 10, with over 41,000 candidates nationwide formally launching their campaigns right now, March 28. /clorenciana
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