Filipino educators join the mounting calls of concerned citizens, communities and people’s organizations for the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to not dismiss and instead to seriously investigate reports of fraud, disinformation, disenfranchisement, and vote-buying in the 2022 national elections.

The EFD asserts that the Comelec’s response is critical in earning the trust of the people in the credibility of the elections, which is one of the Filipino people’s major means in shaping the country’s governance.

We question the Comelec’s declaration of the 2022 elections as successful, despite reports by poll watch groups such as Kontra Daya and Vote Report PH of about 1,371 incidences of machine errors from Luzon to Mindanao, along with 387 cases of illegal campaigning, 137 of vote buying, and 94 of red-tagging, particularly against opposition candidates such as the Makabayan party-list bloc.

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