President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has named the new chairperson and commissioners of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the Malacañang announced on Tuesday.
Acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar confirmed that Duterte has signed the appointment paper of Saidamin Pangarungan as the ad-interim chairman of the Comelec.
The President also signed the appointment papers of George Erwin Garcia and Aimee Neri as Comelec commissioners.
"The directive of the president is to ensure an honest, peaceful, credible, and free elections," said Andanar in a public briefing.
They will fill out the positions vacated by former chairperson Sheriff Abas, and ex-commissioners Antonio Kho and Rowena Guanzon who retired from the Comelec in February.
He finished his law degree in 1976 at the San Beda College, where Duterte also studied.
Neri, for her part, was a former undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
