{"id":279561,"date":"2018-07-06T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=279561"},"modified":"2018-07-06T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T20:06:08","slug":"filing-of-candidacy-for-nov-6-election-starts-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/filing-of-candidacy-for-nov-6-election-starts-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Filing of candidacy  for Nov. 6 election  starts Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_279562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279562\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Julita-A.-Villagomez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Julita-A.-Villagomez-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-279562\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julita A. Villagomez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This Monday, July 9, is the start of filing the nominating petitions and candidacy for the Nov. 6 general election.<br \/>\nAccording to the Commonwealth Election Commission, Aug. 8 is the deadline for submission of nominating petitions and candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>CEC has until Sept. 22 to take action on nominating petitions and candidacy documents.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s and lieutenant governor\u2019s seats and 42 other government positions are up for grabs in the coming election.<\/p>\n<p>CEC executive director Julita A. Villagomez earlier reminded those interested to run that if they are government employees they have to take a leave once they are certified as candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The executive director said elected officials, however, are not required to take a leave once CEC certifies them as candidates.<\/p>\n<p>CEC is expecting the bulk of filing candidacy on the Aug. 8 deadline because most of them are government employees.<\/p>\n<p>CEC said any recognized political party may nominate candidates by having its chairperson and secretary certify to CEC the names of the party\u2019s candidates by Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p>CEC said the certification must accompany the nominating petitions. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday, July 9, is the start of filing the nominating petitions and candidacy for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":279562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[732,242,223,133],"class_list":["post-279561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cec","tag-commonwealth-election-commission","tag-party","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}