The 8 Faces of the Upcoming Presidential Election

The Philippine National Presidential Election for the year 2010 will be on May 10. The casting of votes will commence on that day, Monday. On April 10, 2010 (Saturday) will be the day when Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) will be casting their votes.

Out of the 95 candidates who submitted their Certificates of Candidacy to COMELEC, only 8 of them remained. The rest were considered nuisance candidates by the officials of the Commission on Elections. The final list of the remaining candidates for the 2010 Philippine Presidential Election is listed HERE.

The 8 Faces of the Upcoming Presidential Election

The final list of candidates for Vice-President has been trimmed down to 8 from a total number of 20 before. The Senatorial list of candidates has also been finalized by the COMELEC and reduced the number from 158 to 58 names. The final list of the senatorial candidates can be found HERE.

The rest of the candidates that didn't make it to the ballot list was considered nuisance candidates by the COMELEC due to certain reasons like the lack of capability to wage their own campaign. The other reason was if they were affiliated with a certain party list or if they are just running as an independent candidate.

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Related Links (This are the list as of December 01, 2009):

• Final list of Vice-Presidents and Presidents on the 2010 National Elections
• Final list of Senatorial candidates for the 2010 National Elections

The author has also posted a blog about this matter. Read it here.