Philippine barangay elections, 2016
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All 42,028 Barangay Captains with Sangguniang Barangay seats |
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Barangay elections in the Philippines will be held in October 23, 2017. The election shall elect the Punong Barangay, more commonly known as barangay captains, and members of the Sangguniang Barangay, or barangay council, in 42,028 barangays (villages) throughout the country whose terms start in November 2017. Barangays are the smallest local government unit in the Philippines.
Elections for the reformed Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) will also be held at the same time.
Originally scheduled for October 2016, these elections supposedly concluded the 2016 election cycle that start in May with the election of the Philippine president, the members of Philippine Congress and provincial, city and municipal officials. Upon their election, barangay captains shall elect their cities' or municipalities' League of Barangays of the Philippines chairman, also known as the Association of Barangay Captains or ABC Chairman, who will also sit on their respective local municipal or city council. The provincial ABC chairman will also sit on the provincial board.
On October 18, 2016, or roughly two weeks before the elections, it was confirmed that President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law a bill postponing the October 2016 barangay elections to October 2017. In addition, the subsequent election would be on the second Monday of May 2020, and every three years thereafter. Officials who were elected in 2013 shall continue to serve until 2017.
By March 2017, Duterte expressed that he wanted to postpone the barangay elections until 2020, and replace the barangay officials whose terms are expiring, with his own appointees. This allegedly due to prevent drug money from influencing the result of the elections. His allies in Congress moved to enact a bill doing such. Experts later said that appointing barangay officials is unconstitutional.
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