Con-com votes to allow two relatives to run for public office

The  committee tasked to review the 1987 Constitution on Tuesday voted to allow two candidates related within the second degree of consanguinity and affinity to run for office.

No two relatives may run for positions within one region, province, town or city, and barangay.

The positions should be one national and one regional or local post.

Twelve members of the Consultative Committee voted that two relatives will be allowed to run for government positions in the same elections, while six voted for one relative.

The members were answering the question, "How many positions may relatives within the second degree of consanguinity and affinity may be allowed to run for?"

Parents and children are included in an individual's first degree of consanguinity, while siblings, grandparents and grandchildren are included in the second.

Spouses are considered a person's first degree of affinity while parents-, daughters- and sons-in-law are included as second degree of affinity.

On Monday, the body voted to recommend the regulation and not the complete ban of political dynasties in the Philippines. — KBK/BAP, GMA News