Philippines Koko Pimentel Tender

The 2019 midterm elections for the overseas absentee voting has kicked-off last April 13 2019 Saturday but not all registered Filipino voters who were supposed to receive mailing packets containing their ballots have received the same even to this date declared Senator Aquilino Koko Pimentel III Chairman of the Senate Electoral Reforms and Peoples Participation Committee.Many voters especially in Washington DC USA are complaining that they have not received their ballots yet. I have information that this is because the Commission on Elections COMELEC has remitted only fifty percent 50 of the postage funding requirements to the Department of Foreign Affairs DFA consulates in some regions. Thus consulates would even advance their own funds just to cover their mailing expenses for the elections added Pimentel.According to him voting is a fundamental right of every citizen wherever they are. This is not acceptable as Filipino voters abroad went out of their way to register for the elections only to be deprived of their voting right because of lack of funding by the COMELEC. COMELEC should provide 100 postage funding to all DFA consulates and embassies so all registered OFWs can participate in this election he said.