The Supreme Court ruled that the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections set on the last Monday of October 2023 shall proceed as scheduled.
It is imperative that the people be given the full opportunity to participate in the said elections and exercise their right of suffrage.
Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in him by law, has declared Monday, 30 October 2023, as a special (non-working) day throughout the country.
Barangay elections are elections in the Philippines in the barangays, the smallest of the administrative divisions in the Philippines. Barangays make up cities and municipalities and in turn are made up of sitios and puroks, whose leaders are not elected. Voters of each barangay over 18 years old are eligible to vote for one barangay captain and seven barangay councilors. Together, the barangay captain and barangay councilors make up the Sangguniang Barangay (barangay council).
Voters aged 15 to 30 years old vote in elections for the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK): one SK chairperson and seven SK councilors during the same election. The winning SK chairperson serves as a member of the barangay council.
The next elections are scheduled for December 1st 2025.
