2. The COMELEC will post the petition in the office of the election
officer and in the bulletin board of the provincial, city, or municipal
hall, and set a hearing to hear the organization and objections, if
there are any.
3. After such hearing, the COMELEC will resolve the petition within
30 days from the date of the petition is submitted for resolution,
and in no case later than 120 days before the election.
4. The COMELEC may refuse or cancel the registration of any sectoral
organization or coalition because:
a)
It is a religious sect or denomination, or organized solely for
religious purposes;
b) It advocates violence or unlawful means to attain its goals;
c) It is a foreign organization;
d) It is receiving support from any foreign government, foreign
political party, foundation, organization, whether directly or through
any of its officers or members or indirectly through third parties
for partisan election purposes;
e) It violates or fails to comply with laws, rules and regulations
relating to elections;
f) It declares false statements in its petition; and
g) It is dissolved, absorbed by or merged with other sectoral organizations.
5. The COMELEC, not later than 60 days before the election, will prepare
a certified list of sectoral representations or coalitions, which
applied or manifested their desire to participate in the election
to the local sanggunian and distribute copies to all voting precincts
for posting. The names of the organizations' nominees shall not appear
on said documents.
Each
registered voter may vote for all three positions reserved for the
sectoral representatives in the sanggunian.
It has been suggested that only people pertaining to a particular
sector should vote for their own representatives. For example, only
women will vote for the women's representatives. However, this proposal
may not be feasible because there may be cases, for instance when
the particular sectors overlap.
To illustrate, women may be also be workers, and may also be part
of an indigenous community. In such cases, COMELEC will find it virtually
impossible to produce a "voters' list" for every sector
for every sanggunian.
To avoid the difficulties of this approach, it is suggested that all
voters be entitled to elect one representative for every sector.
By multiplying the number of local government units with the number
of sectoral representatives, there will be 5,061 local sectoral representatives
throughout the country, as the following table shows:
