Comelec to implement work-from-home set up amid Marcos inauguration preps

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday announced it would enforce work-from-home arrangements in some of its offices in connection with the inauguration of President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. at the National Museum.

In a public advisory, poll body's acting spokesperson Attorney John Rex Laudiangco said work-from-home set up would be implemented in the Comelec's main office as well as in the Offices of the Regional Election Director for National Capital Region, Region IV-A and Region IV-B, and the Office of the Election Officer, City of Manila following the road closures and heightened security measures for Marcos' inauguration beginning June 27.

"While physical (face-to-face) frontline services in said offices are suspended from June 27 to 30, 2022, the public is assured of the Commission’s continued delivery of services, with online meetings, online hearings as well as online transactions and other online works to continue on said dates unhampered," Laudiangco said.

He said work in the said offices would also be suspended on June 30.

Earlier, outgoing Manila Mayor Isko Moreno declared June 30 as a special non-working holiday in the City of Manila for Marcos' inauguration as 17th Philippine president.

More than 15,000 security personnel would be deployed, according to the Philippine National Police.—AOL, GMA News