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Fast Facts: The Recall Process: Voting Population in LGU Required Percentage/Number of Petitioners

Voters in a local government unit (LGU) can recall an elected local official through a petition process if they lose confidence in that official. The petition requires signatures from a certain percentage of registered voters, depending on the size of the LGU population. If the Commission on Elections verifies enough valid signatures, a recall election will be held. If the official loses the recall election, they are removed from office. A local official can only face one recall attempt during their term and cannot resign while a recall process is ongoing.

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Fast Facts: The Recall Process: Voting Population in LGU Required Percentage/Number of Petitioners

Voters in a local government unit (LGU) can recall an elected local official through a petition process if they lose confidence in that official. The petition requires signatures from a certain percentage of registered voters, depending on the size of the LGU population. If the Commission on Elections verifies enough valid signatures, a recall election will be held. If the official loses the recall election, they are removed from office. A local official can only face one recall attempt during their term and cannot resign while a recall process is ongoing.

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FAST FACTS: THE RECALL PROCESS

See how voters can exercise their power to recall elected local officials once they have lost their
confidence in them

The power to recall a local elective official due to loss of confidence shall be exercised by registered
voters of the local government unit (LGU) where the official serves. Any provincial, city, municipal, or
barangay official may be subjected to a recall.

No recall proceedings can take place within a year from the date of the local officials' assumption of
office and within a year before a regular local election. Since a term for local officials consists of 3 years,
this limits the initiation of recall proceedings within their second year in office.

The recall process begins with the collection of signatures from supporters of the recall petition. Upon
reaching a sufficient number of signatures, the petitioners should formally file the recall petition before
the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

The poll body would verify the signatures and, once the petition is determined as sufficient in form and
substance, set a date for the recall election.

If the local official loses the election, he or she is ousted from office.

These are the required number of petitioners for a recall petition, according to the Local Government
Code:

Voting Population in LGU Required Percentage/Number of Petitioners

Less than 20,000 At least 25%

20,000 - 74,999 At least 20%, but not less than 5,000

75,000 - 299,999 At least 15%, but not less than 15,000

More than 300,000 At least 10%, but not less than 45,000

There are additional restrictions set by the Local Government Code:

A local official may be subjected to a recall election only once during his term of office.
While the recall process is ongoing, the local official sought to be recalled cannot resign.

There was previously an option for a "preparatory recall assembly" to initiate the recall. It was composed
of elected officials in the LGU concerned. A provincial recall assembly, for example, consists of all the
mayors, vice mayors, and councilors in the province.

But the preparatory recall assembly was discontinued in 2004, following amendments in the Local
Government Code through Republic Act 9244.

Source: http://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/70044-fast-facts-process-recall

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