Filipinos in UAE to vote online as polls open today

Voters can enrol on the Comelec site until May 7

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod

Philippine Ambassadortothe UAE Alfonso Ferdinand Ver has repeated his call for the 189,892 registered Filipino voters across the seven emirates, to enrol over the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (Comelec) overseas voting portal ov.comelec. govph, so their favoured senatorial and party-list representative candidates, have the chance to be part of the national legislative bodies for the craft-ing and enactment of laws towards nationhood, beginning July 2095.

Ver made the reiteration on Saturday morning when he oversaw the Final Lockdown and Sealing (FLS) of the landmark Comelec Online Overseas Voting and Overseas Counting System (OW/OCS), the Comelec-designated Special Board of Election Inspectors (SBEls) at the Philippine Embassy-Abu Dhabi, conducted.

“We are not campaigning for any candidate. We are campaigning for your active participation at this online voting, the first in the history of Phil-ippine Elections, with 189,892 Filipinos in the UAE, the largest out of the |,241,69O registered voters worldwide,” said Ver, viewed by followers of the Philippine Embassy-Abu Dhabi Facebook Page.

The top diplomat made the appeal as he men-tioned as well that of the |,241,690, only 48,000 had registered, since the voting enrolment portal was also opened for the test vote on March 20.